Report
17 Oct 2018
In this report, the World Health Organization maps out what countries can do to modify their financing systems so they can move more quickly towards this goal - universal coverage - and sustain the gains that have been achieved. The report builds on...
Publication
17 Oct 2018
The paper begins to define a framework for analysing and addressing the health sector’s climate footprint – including identifying seven aspects of a climate-friendly hospital. It also draws on a series of examples from around the world that demon...
Guide
17 Oct 2018
This Guidance has been developed jointly by WMO and WHO to outline for practitioners in both NMHSs and National Health Services (NHSs) the issues surrounding the general heat–health problem and present how an understanding of the biometeorology, ep...
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...
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.
Guide
17 Oct 2018
The Innov8 technical handbook is a user-friendly resource as part of the Innov8 approach for reviewing national health programmes to leave no one behind. It gives detailed guidance and exercise sheets for each of the 8 steps of analysis that comprise...
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...
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This document in the first part reviews and synthesizes the first five years of implementation (2008–2013) of projects on health adaptation to climate variability and change in low and middle income countries worldwide. The second part of the repor...
Guide
17 Oct 2018
This guide is targeted towards programme managers who work in climate change and health adaptation, and provides them with practical information and concrete guidance to mainstream gender throughout all four phases of the project cycle: identificatio...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This document presents a strategy to implement programmes for maternal health, newborn and preterm care, the quality of service delivery and how to ensure patient safety, integrated management of childhood illness, early child development, adolescent...
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.
Publication
17 Oct 2018
The WHO UNFCCC Climate and Health Country Profile Project aims to raise awareness of the health impacts of climate change, support evidence-based decision making to strengthen the climate resilience of health systems, and promote actions that improve...
