The World Health Organization’s recommendations on optimizing the roles of health workers aim to help address critical health workforce shortages that slow down progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals. A more rational distribution of tasks and responsibilities among cadres of h...
It is estimated that 41.8% of pregnant women worldwide are anaemic. At least half
of this anaemia burden is assumed to be due to iron deficiency. Member States have
requested guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the effectiveness
and safety of daily iron and folic acid supplementation in ...
Vitamin D deficiency is thought to be common among pregnant women,
particularly during the winter months, and has been found to be associated with an increased risk of
pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus, preterm birth, and other tissue-specific conditions. Recent
scientific literature has repor...
Tuberculosis (TB) contacts are people who have close contact with patients with infectious TB.
As they are at high risk for infection (and in line with the Stop TB strategy), TB contacts should
be investigated systematically and actively for TB infection and disease. Such interventions
are called ‘tube...
Strengthening surveillance systems by vigorous case investigation, including laboratory confirmation, is one of these key strategies. In line with the elimination goal, Surveillance guidelines for measles, rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in the WHO European Region are intended to provide technica...
Following new findings from recently published epidemiological studies, the World Health
Organization (WHO) convened a technical consultation regarding hormonal contraception
and HIV acquisition, progression and transmission. It was recognized that this issue was
likely to be of particular concern in cou...
WHO has completed the Pilot Edition of the Safe
Childbirth Checklist and its Implementation
Manual as a tool to facilitate compliance with
evidence-based practices around childbirth. WHO
recently announced the launch of the Safe
Childbirth Checklist Collaboration, a new
platform to explore implementation...
This guideline provides the first global, evidence-informed recommendations on the consumption of potassium to reduce NCDs in most adults and children which WHO had developed. The recommendations in this guideline can be used by policy-makers, technical and programme planners in the government and variou...
Incluye recomendaciones para el tratamiento y seguimiento de mujeres con cáncer de mama; con la finalidad de incrementar su sobrevida....
Jacobi, J;
Bircher, N;
Krinsley, J;
Agus, M;
Braithwaite, S. S;
Deutschman, C;
Freire, A. X;
Geehan, D;
Kohl, B;
Nasraway, S. A;
Rigby, M;
Sands, K;
Schallom, L;
Taylor, B;
Umpierrez, G;
Mazuski, J;
Schunemann, H.
Objective: To evaluate the literature and identify important aspects of insulin therapy that facilitate safe and effective infusion therapy for a defined glycemic end point. Methods: Where available, the literature was evaluated using Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRA...
