WHO Regional Office for Africa
Fact sheet: Suicide
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet presents an overview with key facts on suicide, its risk factors, challenges, and WHO response in the African Region.
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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Role of legislation in preventing and controlling noncommunicable diseases
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
This information sheet provides answers to frequently asked questions on the roles of legislation and legal interventions in the region of the Eastern Mediterranean to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases.
World Health Organization
Improving access and appropriate use of medicines for mental disorders
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report, based on a consultative process and extensive literature reviews, provides information to improve access to essential medicines for mental disorders. It examines current barriers to access to psychotropic medicines and identifies key act...
World Health Organization
Improving health systems and services for mental health
Report
17 Oct 2018
This document presents an integrated strategy for mental health system development that will lead to enhanced service delivery, improved outcomes, and improved human rights for people with mental disorders.
World Health Organization
Innovation in deinstitutionalization: A WHO expert survey
Report
17 Oct 2018
To better understand this vexing issue, 78 mental health experts representing 42 countries were surveyed on the relative usefulness of different methods to expand community-based mental health services, and/or to downsize institution-based care. Resu...
World Health Organization
Mental health Action Plan 2013 - 2020
Report
17 Oct 2018
This action plan recognizes the essential role of mental health in achieving health for all people. It is based on a life-course approach, aims to achieve equity through universal health coverage and stresses the importance of prevention.
World Health Organization
Assessing and treating conditions associated with stress only section mhGAP guidelines for responding to mental and neurological disorders
Guide
17 Oct 2018
This mhGAP module on Conditions Specifically Related to Stress by WHO and UNHCR contains assessment and management advice related to acute stress, post-traumatic stress and grief in non-specialized health settings.
World Health Organization
Assessing mental health and psychosocial needs and resources
Report
17 Oct 2018
The WHO-UNHCR publication Assessing Mental Health and Psychosocial Needs and Resources: Toolkit for Humanitarian Settings was developed because of frequent requests from the field to advise on assessment. Although a range of assessment tools exist, w...
World Health Organization
Atlas of headache disorders and resources in the world 2011
Report
17 Oct 2018
Despite that headache is felt at some time by nearly everybody, and almost half the world’s adults at any one time have recent personal experience of one or more of the three very common headache disorders, much is unknown about the public-health i...
World Health Organization
Integrating palliative care and symptom relief into primary health care. A WHO guide for planners, implementers and managers.
Guide
16 Oct 2018
The World Health Assembly has resolved that palliative care is “an ethical responsibility of health systems” and that integration of palliative care into public health care systems is essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development G...
World Health Organization
Integrating palliative care and symptom relief into paediatrics.
Publication
10 Aug 2018
People younger than 20 years comprise 35% of the global population and 40% of the global population of least-developed nations. The number of children – neonates, infants, children, and adolescents up to 19 years of age – who need pediatric palli...
World Health Organization
Why palliative care is an essential function of primary health care
Publication
07 Aug 2018
"Why Palliative Care is an Essential Function of Primary Health Care" emphasizes that integrating palliative care into primary health care is crucial for achieving universal health coverage (UHC) and improving the quality of life for patients with se...