Report
15 Nov 2022
Cities in Africa are growing fast: over 65% of the population will live in urban areas by 2060. This rapid urbanisation is drastically increasing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Air pollution is already Africa’s second biggest cause of...
14 Nov 2022
The Global Asthma Report 2022 was launched at the Union World Conference on Lung Health on 10th November. It is the fourth version and has contributions from 97 experts from, 31 countries. Content is focused around reducing the bu...
Report
12 Nov 2022
Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2022 presents key indicators on health status, determinants of health, health care resources and utilisation, health expenditure and financing, and quality of care for 27 Asia-Pacific countries and territories. Countr...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
08 Nov 2022
The fifth round of COSI data collection took place between 2018 and 2020 in 33 countries. In total, almost 411 000 children aged 6–9 years were measured. The full details of the fifth round of data collection are described in a report
08 Nov 2022
WHO/Europe has published a new Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) report, the fifth in a series measuring trends in overweight and obesity among primary school aged children since 2007. The new report’s findings are based on the latest data gathered in 2018–2020 in 33 countries of the WHO European Region. In total, almost 411 000 children aged 6–9 years were measured. For the f...
08 Nov 2022
04 Nov 2022
Ahead of World Diabetes Day today, WHO hosted several private sector entities who have expressed new commitments and proposed contributions to requested WHO Asks or strengthened previous commitments to increase access to insulin and health technologies.This was part of the 3rd diabetes dialogue to support diabetes diagnosis and monitoring including access to devices such as glucose meters and poin...
04 Nov 2022
Article
02 Nov 2022
The World Health Assembly resolution WHA74.4, adopted in May 2021, marked a historic milestone in the collective efforts to address the global diabetes epidemic and urged Member States to raise the priority given to the prevention, diagnosi...
Case study
24 Oct 2022
In 2020–2021, with the support of the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, the World Health Organization (WHO) provided direct financial and technical support to 54 grassroots civil society organizations (CSO) in 40 countries, serving over 80 milli...
Report
24 Oct 2022
Noncommunicable diseases cause nearly three quarters of deaths in the world. There are four major NCDs: cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease. Their drivers are social, environ...
24 Oct 2022
The WHO Framework for Meaningful Engagement of People Living with Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health conditions (hereby ‘The Framework’) will support WHO and Members States in the meaningful engagement of individuals with lived experience to co-create and enhance related policies, programmes, and services. The framework will contribute to the advancement of understanding...
24 Oct 2022
21 Oct 2022
“My body knows how to recover. That’s what competitive strength athletics taught me. I’ve realized competing was the practice. Recovering from breast cancer is the game.” Less than 4 months have passed since Jasmine Lake found a lump in her breast. While recovering from a recent double mastectomy, she spoke to WHO/Europe about her experience of being diagnosed and treate...
21 Oct 2022
20 Oct 2022
This year’s theme for the NCD Global Week for Action, ‘invest to protect,’ could not have come at a better time for the obesity community. After years of calling for more to be done about obesity, people working and living with obesity from all countries were delighted to see the World Health Assembly adopt the WHO Acceleration Plan and recommendations. Obesity is associated with 5 million d...
20 Oct 2022
