World Health Organization (WHO)
HEARTS Technical Package
Guide
17 May 2019
The HEARTS technical package provides a strategic approach to improving cardiovascular health in countries. It comprises six modules and an implementation gu...
Guide
17 May 2019
The HEARTS technical package provides a strategic approach to improving cardiovascular health in countries. It comprises six modules and an implementation gu...
Fact sheet
17 May 2019
To support governments in strengthening the prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), in 2016 WHO and the United States Centers for Disease C...
Article
15 May 2019
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) constitute a major global health challenge, hampering nations’ economic growth and sustainable development. The four major...
Report
07 May 2019
This report, published on the first-ever Universal Health Coverage Day, highlights the current situation in relation to hospice and palliati...
Report
07 May 2019
The purpose of this report is to call attention to the importance of respiratory health in the world and to raise it to be a top priority in global decision-...
Report
07 May 2019
This report measures progress of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goals 4, 5, and 6. T...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
02 May 2019
In 2018 the WHO Director-General identified mental health for accelerated implementation within WHO’s work. This WHO Special Initiative seeks to ensure uni...
Report
24 Apr 2019
The report is submitted in response to resolution WHA71.2 (2018), which “requests the Director-General to report to the Seventy-second World Health Assembl...
Article
16 Apr 2019
When developed and implemented effectively, national cancer control plans (NCCPs) improve cancer outcomes at the population level. However, many countries do...
Article
15 Apr 2019
Thrombosis is a major contributor to the global burden of disease because it is the pathology underlying venous thromboembolism (VTE), ischaemic heart diseas...
08 Apr 2019
This document outlines practical approaches to combat threats to respiratory health and proven strategies to significantly improve the care provided for indi...
Report
08 Apr 2019
The aim of the report is to show how the Global Goal for Health and accompanying targets could support a focus on improving palliative care for people with l...