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Key Messages for Breast Cancer Awareness Month| October 2024
Briefs & Fact Sheets
01 Oct 2024
Key Messages for Breast Cancer Awareness Month from the WHO Global Breast Cancer Initiative
Briefs & Fact Sheets
01 Oct 2024
Key Messages for Breast Cancer Awareness Month from the WHO Global Breast Cancer Initiative
Report
30 Sep 2024
Abstract Background: Patient navigation (PN) is an evidence‐based practice that involves assessing and addressing individual barriers to care for patients. While PN has shown effectiveness in numerous studies, designing successful,...
Article
30 Sep 2024
Are you an oncology professional or a cancer organization professional from a low- or middle-income country or other low-resource setting? Are you trying to establish or improve an oncology patient navigation program to help people access cancer diag...
30 Sep 2024
This brief’s key messages are: The patient navigator role originated in the USA. It is designed to support patients in finding their way through health and social care systems, and to help them overcome barriers to accessing services. ...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
30 Sep 2024
These ready-made social media cards and messages can be used to raise awareness about key information on breast cancer.
Report
30 Sep 2024
It is with great pleasure that we present this collection of abstracts, selected from the top 200 submissions to the 2024 World Cancer Congress, held in Geneva, Switzerland, from the 17th to the 19th of September. This compilation reflects the d...
30 Sep 2024
This open letter to world leaders serves as a crucial advocacy tool, urging all governments to fulfil their commitments to address the burden of NCDs. It calls on Member States to take decisive action at the Fourth UN High-level Meeting on NCDs in Se...
Publication
29 Sep 2024
Patient navigation is a strategy for overcoming barriers to reduce disparities and to improve access and outcomes. The aim of this umbrella review was to identify, critically appraise, synthesize, and present the best available evidence to inform pol...
Guide
27 Sep 2024
This Handbook walks non-State actors engaging with the World Health Organization (WHO) through the principles and processes of the Framework of engagement with non-State actors (FENSA) to ensure smooth interaction with WHO. The Handbook does not r...
Publication
27 Sep 2024
WHO has progressively strengthened its work for adolescent health, growing its portfolio of research, norms and standards, country support and advocacy, and expanding the scope of work across over 17 departments, regional and country offices to addre...
Guide
27 Sep 2024
Monitoring of dietary intake at national and global levels is becoming increasingly important with the changing food systems and diets. Better measurement and monitoring are needed to support governments in establishing policies and programmes to pro...
Publication
27 Sep 2024
Access to appropriate, affordable, effective, and safe health technologies is paramount, especially in low-resource settings, where burden of non-communicable diseases adds on to the infectious diseases. NCDs account for a stagg...