World Health Organization
Fact Sheet: Universal health coverage (UHC)
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17 Oct 2018
Fact sheet on Universal Health Care
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New Perspectives on Global Health Spending for Universal Health Coverage
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This report summarizes the latest internationally comparable data on health spending in all WHO Member States between 2000 and 2015. But it does more than publish the most recent data. For the first time the report also uses the new international classification for health expenditures in the revised System of Health Accounts (SHA-2). 6 These classifications enable presenting detailed information o...
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Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLIS) country profile indicators
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This Indicator Interpretation Guide provides information on all indicators included in the Country Profile. For each indicator, the Guide gives a general understanding and scientific definition, a description of consequences or implications, including cut-off-values for public health significance where these have been established, and reference to the source of information and suggested further re...
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Plan of action – The path to Universal Health Coverage
Report
17 Oct 2018
Since WHR 2010, over 60 countries have approached WHO to modify their health financing systems in order to achieve the UHC goal. In March 2011 WHO convened a meeting of health financing experts - from partner agencies, government, civil society and academia. This document draws on their inputs. Although it stops short of outlining which of the partners will undertake the work, with time lines and...
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Programme reporting standards for sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health
Guide
17 Oct 2018
The purpose of this document is to serve as a guide for implementation researchers who need to document important details of implementation and context in addition to the results of their studies.
World Health Organization
Promoting health while mitigating climate change
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17 Oct 2018
This is one of two technical background papers prepared as a basis for discussion at the WHO Health and Climate Conference. It provides a brief summary of the available evidence on the health impacts (co-benefits and risks) of climate change mitigation strategies, and an outline of the necessary health sector responses that may contribute to optimizing co-benefits while mitigating risks.
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Protecting health from climate change
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report provides an update of the evidence on health risks caused by climate change, describes which populations are most vulnerable, and outlines the actions that will be necessary to protect health from climate change.
World Health Organization
Protecting health from climate change: Global research priorities
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17 Oct 2018
WHO carried out a global consultation which brought experts on climate change, health and related disciplines together to produce background reports covering each of the themes identified by the WHA Resolution. This report presents the conclusions and recommendations from this process, with the aim of improving the evidence base for policies to protect health from climate change.
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Protecting health from climate change: vulnerability and adaptation assessment
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This document is designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting a national or subnational assessment of current and future vulnerability (i.e. the susceptibility of a population or region to harm) to the health risks of climate change, and of policies and programmes that could increase resilience, taking into account the multiple determinants of climate-sensitive health outcomes.
World Health Organization
Protecting health from climate change: vulnerability and adaptation assessment
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This document is designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting a national or subnational assessment of current and future vulnerability (i.e. the susceptibility of a population or region to harm) to the health risks of climate change, and of policies and programmes that could increase resilience, taking into account the multiple determinants of climate-sensitive health outcomes.
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Protocol to eliminate illicit trade in tobacco products
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17 Oct 2018
This treaty aims at eliminating all forms of illicit trade in tobacco products. It provides tools for preventing illicit trade by securing the supply chain, including by establishing an international tracking and tracing system, by countering illicit trade through dissuasive law enforcement measures and a suite of measures to enable international cooperation.
World Health Organization
Global nutrition policy review: What does it take to scale up nutrition action?
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report presents the current global nutrition challenges, drawing on data from various sources including existing WHO Global Nutrition Databases being managed by the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development (Section 2), the methods and main outcomes of the Global Nutrition Policy Review, showing the extent of policy and programme implementation and nutrition governance in 119 WHO Mem...