Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Mar 2018
Key facts About 125 million people in the world are exposed to asbestos at the workplace. All forms of asbestos, including chrysotile, are carcinogenic to humans. What is asbestos? Asbestos is a group of naturally occurring fibrous...
Article
13 Oct 2017
In agonising, crippling pain from lung cancer, Mr S came to the palliative care service in Calicut, Kerala, from an adjoining district a couple of hours away by bus. His body language revealed the depth of the suffering.We put Mr S on morphine, among...
Fact sheet
18 Jun 2016
This Tobacco Fact Sheet presents national data from the 2016 Armenia STEPS Survey on tobacco use and control indicators for adults aged 18–69. It provides insights into smoking prevalence, quit attempts, secondhand smoke exposure, and awareness of...
Report
18 Jun 2016
This report presents detailed results from the Armenia STEPS Survey 2016, providing statistical breakdowns by sex and age groups (18–69 and 45–69 years). It covers the prevalence of major noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors in Armenia usin...
Guide
16 Feb 2016
This is a practical manual on how to plan and implement palliative care services, integrated into existing health-care services, at national or subnational level. It has been designed primarily for health programme managers at national, provincial, o...
