Publication
31 May 2021
Social participation is an important means for governments to develop responsive health policies and programmes, which are more likely to be implemented by a broad stakeholder group. It is at the heart of the inclusive governance needed for countries...
Report
29 May 2021
The World Report on Hearing (WRH) has been developed in response to the World Health Assembly resolution (WHA70.13), adopted in 2017 as a means of providing guidance for Member States to integrate ear and hearing care into their national health plans...
Declaration
27 May 2021
The Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly, having considered the consolidated report by the Director-General, the mid-point evaluation of the WHO global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013–2030 and the final e...
Guide
26 May 2021
A set of publications that provides information and support to all stakeholders who wish to develop or transform their mental health system and services to align with international human rights standards including the UN Convention on the Rights of P...
Article
24 May 2021
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 24, 2021 – Our vision of a world without tobacco deaths is materializing. Today, ASH released an open letter calling on governments around the world to not only envision ending the tobacco epidemic but put in place concrete p...
Guatemala
20 May 2021
Guatemala’s Sololá region, with its sparkling lake ringed by volcanoes, is exceptionally beautiful. But a hidden danger stalks the Maya people who live there. Glucose tests conducted by Hospitalito Atitlán, WDF’s partner in the region, found that 15% of people tested had diabetes and 11% were pre-diabetic. More than 23% of the hospital’s patients are obese, and 43% are overweight...
20 May 2021
Report
19 May 2021
The report by United for Global Mental Health – Decriminalising Suicide: Saving Lives, Reducing Stigma - is produced with the support of Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw programme and an international law firm who led and conducted the...
Article
07 May 2021
In April 2021, WHO published a special supplement in the journal of Health Research Policy and Systems entitled, Catalysing policy change to introduce and scale up self-care interventions for SRHR: Lessons from the Eastern Mediterranean Region. There...
Publication
06 May 2021
The World Heart Federation Roadmaps are central to its mission to address the global burden of cardiovascular disease. They provide comprehensive frameworks for countries and regions to identify key barriers as well as implement evidence-based policy...
Publication
04 May 2021
Background Low-income and middle-income countries are struggling to manage growing numbers of patients with chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), while services for patients with HIV infection are well established. There have been calls for in...
29 Apr 2021
On behalf of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, we are pleased to invite you to the launch of the Global Dementia Observatory Knowledge Exchange (GDO KE) Platform. The launch event will take place on Wednesday, 5 May 2021 between 1pm and 2pm CET via Zoom. You can find the connection details below: Zoom link: here Password: GDOKEP#21 We will welcome distinguished s...
29 Apr 2021
