This aim lead to strategies that increase the proportion of adults who participate in adequate physical activity for health-enhancing benefits; lead to policy and programme development that addresses the broader social, physical and policy environments that might support physical activity in populations ...
This document is intended to provide an interim policy framework for the laboratory component relevant to programmatic implementation of MDR-TB strategies....
The first module in the Cancer Control series, Planning, provides a template for cancer control planning and progamme implementation. The recommended framework draws on earlier WHO work in this field, the principles of which are set out in National cancer control programmes, policies and managerial guide...
Communicable diseases are currently the leading cause of preventable deaths worldwide, disproportionately affecting resource-poor settings. Pandemic influenza would add to already unacceptable levels of morbidity and mortality from diarrhoea, malaria, pneumonia, malnutrition, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, i...
Anthrax is primarily a disease of herbivores. Humans almost invariably contract the natural disease directly or indirectly from animals or animal products. Anthrax essentially ceased to be regarded as a disease of major health or economic importance after the enormous successes of Max Sterne’s veterina...
Zoonoses/prevention & control,
Anthrax/epidemiology,
Anthrax Vaccines/administration & dosage,
Anthrax/veterinary,
Anthrax/prevention & control,
Bacillus anthracis/pathogenicity,
Risk Factors,
Anthrax/drug therapy,
Seasons,
Incidence,
Anthrax/transmission
The Department of Ageing and Life Course (ALC) has developed a toolkit that assists health care workers in being well versed in the diagnosis and management of the chronic diseases and the so-called four giants of geriatrics (memory loss, urinary incontinence, depression and falls/immobility) that often ...
The Department of Ageing and Life Course (ALC) has developed a toolkit that assists health care workers in being well versed in the diagnosis and management of the chronic diseases and the so-called four giants of geriatrics (memory loss, urinary incontinence, depression and falls/immobility) that often ...
The IMCI chart booklet is a guide for first-level health workers on assessment, management and follow up of common childhood illnesses including pneumonia, malaria, diarrhoea, ear infections, severe malnutrition and measles. The modified IMCI chart booklet for high HIV settings addresses the same problem...
In June 2005, WHO’s Strategic, Technical and Advisory Group on TB approved the
new Stop TB Strategy, which was endorsed by the Stop TB Partnership Coordinating
Board in November 2005. The new Strategy was designed to deal with challenges and obstacles that slow the progress in achieving tuberculosis co...
Since the publication of the Tuberculosis handbook by the World Health Organization in 1998, important changes have taken place in the global context in which control of tuberculosis (TB) is carried out. Firstly, the DOTS strategy has been adopted by virtually all countries during the past decade, althou...
