Publication
06 Dec 2018
This synthesis report is the first publication showing the progress, challenges and opportunities of global monitoring of this Sustainable Development Goal. This report complements the 2018 Secretary-General’s Progress Report on SDGs which shows pr...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
06 Dec 2018
This brief provides an overview of the movement to implement California's climate change legislation in ways that offer maximum co-benefits to health, equity, and sustainability, and an overview of California's Health in All Policies movement, to sho...
Report
03 Dec 2018
This report, aims to outline the interconnections between climate change and diabetes; establish the co-benefits of combating two global risks in an integrated policy agenda; and inform the global discussion on health and sustainable development.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Nov 2018
This policy brief highlights the role of Ministries of labor and employment in recognizing that the right to health is a fundamental responsibility of the government. It also outlines the importance of governments' work with employers and other partn...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report functions as a monitoring tool for assessing the situation into the Decade and Plan of Action’s third year. As such, it describes the current road safety situation in the Americas; identifies gaps in road safety and stimulates national...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report reflects current road safety information from 31 Member States. It indicates the regional, subregional rate of road traffic deaths and country specific information on road safety management. This document also provides the legislation ana...
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This paper examines the current situation of chronic kidney disease in agricultural communities in Central America. The paper also presents the progress made in the clinical and epidemiological characterization of the disease so that the countries of...
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This document presents a background to this epidemic, including its epidemiology and main hypothetical risk factors of Chronic Kidney Disease of non-Traditional Causes (CKDnT). It also includes a description of clinical and pathological characteristi...
Publication
17 Oct 2018
Executive summary of The Lancet Series, authored by an international group of public health, environmental, and other scientists. Each study focuses on one sector in which greenhouse-gas emissions need to be reduced.
Dialogue
17 Oct 2018
This paper addresses the social dimensions of climate change from a sustainable, equitable development perspective, understood as “an irreducible holistic concept where economic, social and environmental issues are interdependent dimensions that mu...
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This brochure presents six paintings commissioned by WHO as part of an art project aiming to support awareness-raising about the health consequences of climate change.
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet presents an overview with key facts on climate change and WHO response in the African Region.
