World Health Organization
Trans fat
Briefs & Fact Sheets
24 Jan 2024
Key facts Trans fat, or trans-fatty acids (TFA), are unsaturated fatty acids that come from either industrial or natural sources....
Briefs & Fact Sheets
24 Jan 2024
Key facts Trans fat, or trans-fatty acids (TFA), are unsaturated fatty acids that come from either industrial or natural sources....
Case study
22 Jan 2024
The conflict in Ukraine did not begin with the Russian invasion in 2022: since 2014, 1.5 million people had already been internally displaced in the occupied...
Strategy document
22 Jan 2024
This toolkit provides key information on Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) prevention, detection, and management. Aligning with the ISN 0by25 initiati...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
22 Jan 2024
Living with and managing a chronic condition can be challenging in any circumstances. However, people living with NCDs face even greater challenges when livi...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Jan 2024
Even though the prevalence and absolute number of current tobacco users aged 15 years old or older has declined steadily in the 20 years since the adoption o...
Publication
03 Jan 2024
WHO has been supporting EMR Member States in their efforts to achieve nutrition-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the global and regional nutr...
Case study
01 Jan 2024
This Series is produced as first part of the WHO’s Primary Health Care (PHC) Implementation Solutions Initiative. The Series sets out to unpack the impleme...
Publication
22 Dec 2023
The technical paper distils key messages from the World Health Organization publication “Voice, agency, empowerment – handbook on social participation fo...
Publication
18 Dec 2023
Introduction Lebanon is a middle-income country facing substantial fragility features. Its health profile shows ...
Publication
07 Dec 2023
United for Global Mental Health presents a new brief tit...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Dec 2023
Key facts HIV remains a major global public health issue, having claimed 40.4 million [32.9–51.3 million] lives so far...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Dec 2023
Key facts Depression is a common mental disorder. Globally, an estimated 5% of adults suffer from depression....