Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
WHO fact sheet with key message on climate change and health for ministers of health: Climate change will be the defining issue for health systems in the 21st century, interacting with all social determinants of health.
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
WHO fact sheet with key message on climate change and health for health professionals: Climate change will be the defining issue for health systems in the 21st century, interacting with all of the social determinants of health. Health profession...
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
WHO fact sheet with key message on climate change and health for local authorities: By placing health and climate change considerations at the center of urban policies and design, we can create safer, fairer, and more prosperous communities.
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
Delegates agreed on a resolution on digital health that urges Member States to prioritize the development and greater use of digital technologies in health as a means of promoting Universal Health Coverage and advancing the Sustainable Development Go...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of earmarking, and it analyses country experience with earmarking for health and its impact on health sector budgets and the broader fiscal environment. The goal is to provide useful information to hea...
Report
17 Oct 2018
In April 2016, WHO’s Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing convened a follow-up meeting to bring together representatives of national health and finance authorities, as well as other public finance and health financing policy expert...
Report
17 Oct 2018
The overall aims of this document are to: provide guidance to Member States on monitoring and evaluation of national diet and physical activity policies and to assist them in identifying specific indicators to measure the implementation of these poli...
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This policy brief outlines what is meant by free health care policies and why it is important to discuss these in relation to universal health coverage. It explores health financing policy issues related to free health care policies as well as the po...
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
An overview of gender, which requires us to ensure that health policy, programmes, services and delivery models are responsive to the needs of women, men, girls and boys in all their diversity.
Guide
17 Oct 2018
The manual is a user-friendly guide aimed to raise awareness and develop skills on gender analysis and gender responsive planning in health sector activities. It is conceptually structured to move from awareness to action throughout a three to four d...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report provides a first review of the interactions between climate change, gender and health. It documents evidence for gender differences in health risks that are likely to be exacerbated by climate change, and in adaptation and mitigation meas...
Report
17 Oct 2018
Data in the report, Global accelerated action for the health of adolescents (AA-HA!): Guidance to support country implementation, reveal stark differences in causes of death when separating the adolescent group by age (younger adolescents aged 10–1...
