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10 Mar 2024

WHO Regional Office for Western Pacific

Healthy mouths, healthy lives: the Pacific’s 2030 commitment

In Pacific island countries and areas, as many as 1 in 2 children have dental caries in their baby teeth – the highest prevalence worldwide. When caries are left untreated, they can cause pain, making it uncomfortable for children to eat, speak and play. Poor oral health can also lead to gum disease and tooth loss later in life, further reducing people’s health and quality of life.&nbsp; Be...

10 Mar 2024

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10 Mar 2024

CLAN (Caring & Living As Neighbours)

Colombia drives change for children living with NCDs!

It is estimated that one in four children live with a non-communicable disease (NCD). On 10 March 2024, one childhood NCD Community in Colombia changed forever… Thanks to&nbsp;inspirational leadership at Fundación Cardio Infantil, La Cardio in Bogotáthe and with the brilliant team at SiEndo Foundation, the Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) Community of Colombia came together for the f...

10 Mar 2024

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HelpAge International

Caregiver Manual

Publication

10 Mar 2024

HelpAge's Caregiver Manual - HelpAge International&nbsp;is a basic guide for families and volunteers providing care and support for older people. It includes: An overview of who this guide is for Section 1: Guide for the organisers, manage...

PublicationDisability and rehabilitationGender, equity and human rightsHealthy AgingHealth promotionPrimary health care+3
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World Health Organization

Investing in mental health

Publication

08 Mar 2024

Mental health and well-being are fundamental to our collective and individual ability as humans to think, emote, interact with each other, earn a living and enjoy life. Yet currently the formation of individual and collective mental capital – espec...

PublicationMental Health and Neurological ConditionsHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing
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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

Palliative Care- How Can We Respond to 10 years of Limited Progress (World Innovation Summit for Health Report)

Report

07 Mar 2024

The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) report, "Palliative Care: How Can We Respond to 10 Years of Limited Progress," highlights the slow advancement in global palliative care despite the 2014 World Health Assembly Resolution 67.19, which call...

ReportCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsAccess to essential medicines and servicesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care+6

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United for Global Mental Health

BRIEF: FINANCING MENTAL HEALTH FOR ALL

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

With mental health at the forefront of the conversation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunity for once-in-a-generation change is being presented. The integration of mental health into universal health coverage (UHC) reforms during the...

Briefs & Fact SheetsMental Health and Neurological ConditionsHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

Infant and young child feeding

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

Key facts Every infant and child has the right to good nutrition according to the "Convention on the Rights of the Child". Undernutrition is associated with 45% of child deaths. Globally in 2022, 149 million children under 5 were estimated...

Briefs & Fact SheetsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthNutrition and food safetyUnhealthy diets+1

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World Health Organization

Household air pollution

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

Key facts Around 2.3 billion people worldwide (around a third of the global population) cook using open fires or inefficient stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal, which generates harmful household air...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesHousehold and Outdoor Air Pollution+1

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World Health Organization

Human papillomavirus and cancer

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

Key facts Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the name of a group of 200 known viruses. They do not cause concerns in most people, but infection with some high-risk types is common and can cause genital warts or cancer. In 90% of people the body co...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancerCommunicable diseases

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World Health Organization

Commercial determinants of health

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

Key facts Commercial determinants of health are the private sector activities that affect people’s health, directly or indirectly, positively or negatively. The private sector influences the social, physical and cultural environments throug...

Briefs & Fact SheetsSocial determinants of health

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World Health Organization

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

Key facts Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death worldwide, causing 3.23 million deaths in 2019. Nearly 90% of COPD deaths in those under 70 years of age occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMI...

Briefs & Fact SheetsChronic Respiratory DiseasesHousehold and Outdoor Air PollutionTobacco use+1

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World Health Organization

Cervical cancer

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

Key facts Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women globally with around 660 000 new cases and around 350 000 deaths in 2022. The highest rates of cervical cancer incidence and mortality are in low- and middle-income countries...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancer

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