Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
This document provides Member States with the rationale and key strategic lines of action for comprehensive public health interventions to halt the progression of the obesity epidemic in children and adolescents.
Report
17 Oct 2018
The main goal of this resolution is to call on Member States to prioritize the prevention of obesity and diabetes and their common risk factors by establishing and/or strengthening policies and programs, integrating them into public and private healt...
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This publication explores the relationship between and the impact of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) on development and economic growth in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
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
This volume explores the relationship between and the impact of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) on development and economic growth in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This collection of manuscripts examines the complex interpla...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This table is featured in the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic (2009), the second in a series that tracks the status of the tobacco epidemic and the impact of the interventions that are being implemented to stop it. It provides a comprehensi...
Case study
17 Oct 2018
This case study uses a qualitative approach to describe Rwanda's progress in addressing the social determinants of health by comparing the Rwanda’s situation against the five key themes of the Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Hea...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report is the first report to focus on the health of the 738 million people living in the African Region of the World Health Organization. It provides a comprehensive analysis of key public health issues and progress made on them in the Africa R...
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 study was therefore designed to gain in-depth understanding of the interface between communities and health services and yield new knowledge on ways through which communities could be empowered to better contribute to health reforms together wit...
Guide
17 Oct 2018
This document highlights effective and sustainable methods that can be used to control the burden of cervical cancer in the context of Africa, following an analysis of the burden of cervical cancer and its social determinants in the African Region. I...
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This nutrient profile model is designed for use by policy-makers in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region for the purposes of restricting food marketing to children.
