Declaration
12 Nov 2019
On 23 September, at the United Nations General Assembly, all 193 UN Member States adopted a high-level political declaration on universal health coverage in New York, the most comprehensive document ever on global health and the right to access quali...
Report
12 Nov 2019
This scoping review synthesizes the global evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being, with a specific focus on the WHO European Region Over the past two decades, there has been a major increase in research into the...
Guide
14 Oct 2019
The WSO Roadmap to Delivering Quality Stroke Care is an implementation resource to accompany the WSO Global Stroke Services Guideline and Action Plan. This roadmap provides the framework for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of stroke ser...
Publication
11 Oct 2019
The National Diabetes Program was coordinated through the Ministry of Health under the NCD section and was directly placed under the National NCD steering committee. The rollout of NDP program was made to utilize the already existing health infrastru...
Report
08 Oct 2019
At present at least 2.2 billion people around the world have a vision impairment, of whom at least 1 billion have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or is yet to be addressed. The world faces considerable challenges in terms of eye ca...
03 Oct 2019
SCOPE is a free internationally-recognized certification in obesity management. It equips health professionals with up to date, evidence-based obesity management resources, to better treat their patients with obesity and to excel in their c...
Report
03 Oct 2019
The atlas presents data for every country based on their current and predicted levels of obesity in children, the risk factors and the presence of government policies to tackle obesity, such as restricting the marketing of foods to children, encourag...
Report
03 Oct 2019
Alcohol consumption has long been recognized as one of the main driving factors of mortality in the Russian Federation, especially among men of working age. The introduction of various evidence-based alcohol control measures at the beginning of the 2...
01 Oct 2019
New York, 25 September 2019 - In the margins of the 74th United Nations General Assembly, the World Health Organization, together with the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the UN, organized a high level discussion on : “Political leadership and accountability on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health: Enabling healthier lives and wellbeing”, shedding light on the need...
01 Oct 2019
24 Sep 2019
The World Health Organization and the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the UN are co-organizing the meeting: "Political leadership and accountability on NCDs and mental health: Enabling healthier lives and wellbeing". The meeting will take place on Wednesday, 25th of September 2019 from 10:00-11:45 at the UN Conference Room 6 in New York. In 2015, the Uni...
24 Sep 2019
11 Sep 2019
PRIME (the Preventable Risk Integrated ModEl) is a free and easy to use scenario modelling tool that generates estimates of the number of lives that can be saved by policies that change patterns in diet, physical activity, tobacco and alcohol for a g...
Publication
01 Sep 2019
The World Heart Federation Roadmaps are central to its mission to address the global burden of cardiovascular disease. They provide comprehensive frameworks for countries and regions to identify key barriers as well as implement evidence-based polici...
