Data and information that help governments prioritize health challenges and allocate necessary resources rely on strong country health information systems. These systems identify health care availability as well as access and quality of care issues that prevent the attainment of universal health coverage...
The SCORE for health data package uses five interventions: Survey populations and health risks; Count births, deaths and causes of death; Optimize health service data; Review progress and performance; Enable data use for policy and action. Each intervention has a set of key elements, which is accompanied...
The Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) Europe is an initiative of the WHO Regional Office for Europe. It supports WHO Member States to develop a culture and practice of designing health policies based on the best available research evidence. Annual Network meetings with a different composition of...
Suicide is a serious global public health problem; it is associated with an array of factors,
including mental illness, social isolation, physical illness, substance abuse, family violence
and access to means of suicide. The epidemiology of suicide rates varies across countries and
regions; those in east...
During the last decades the prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity in Europe has grown. Although it is possibly levelling off in some areas of Europe, the scale of childhood obesity and its associated morbidities and costs remains considerable. Obese children and adolescents are more likely than ...
Human resource shortages in the health services are widely
acknowledged as a threat to the attainment of the healthrelated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Attempts to
optimize the potential of the existing health workforce are
therefore crucial. A more rational distribution of tasks and
responsibili...
In recent years, visibility and political support for malaria has continued to increase dramatically.
This policy brief is a summary of the WHO recommended technical strategies. The purpose is to
present in one concise document a summary of WHO Guidance in order to assist countries in
developing Global F...
The World Health Organization Guidelines for the treatment of malaria provides
evidence-based and up-to-date recommendations for countries on malaria
diagnosis and treatment which help countries formulate their policies and
strategies. In scope, the Guidelines cover the diagnosis and treatment of
uncompl...
Within the last decades, social exclusion, disparities, and absolute poverty – almost 3 billion people living on less than US $2.00 per day – have grown despite globalization and rising per-capita income in many developing nations. Income ratios of the richest 20% of the population to the poorest 20%...
An influenza pandemic seems inevitable. The H5N1 influenza virus, known as the avian influenza, is currently circulating in Asia and has appeared in other regions. Avian influenza (flu), which has been transmitted from birds to humans on a limited basis, can be rapidly fatal, with a reported death rate o...
