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Regional workshop to enhance Member States’ capacities in establishing and operating cancer registries in support of comprehensive cancer control: Report

Regional workshop to enhance Member States’ capacities in establishing and operating cancer registries in support of comprehensive cancer control: Report

Tobacco Atlas - 3rd Edition

Tobacco Atlas - 3rd Edition

Maternal and Child Health Week 2015 Posters

Maternal and Child Health Week 2015 Posters

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Overview This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds to the demand from Member States and partners for guidance on how the health sector and its operational basis in health systems can systematically and effectively address the challenges increasingly presented by climate variability and change. This framework has been designed in light of the increasing evidence of climate change and its associated h

Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems

Report card on the WHO FCTC

Report card on the WHO FCTC

Strengthening health resilience to climate change

Strengthening health resilience to climate change

Scope and purpose of the paper This is one of two technical background papers prepared as a basis for discussion at the WHO Health and Climate Conference. It provides a brief summary of the available evidence on the health impacts (co-benefits and risks) of climate change mitigation strategies, and an outline of the necessary health sector responses that may contribute to optimizing co-benefits while mitigating risks. The accompanying paper provides a brief summary of the available evidence on the health

Promoting health while mitigating climate change

Overview Learn more about about climate change, its impact on health and what you can do to help. Read our short summaries designed for specific audiences from Health Ministers to the general public

Did you know: by taking action on climate change you can strengthen public health

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Report on the status of major health risk factors for noncommunicable diseases: WHO African Region, 2015

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Strategic Directions for WHO 2010–2015

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National coordination mechanism for tobacco control a model for the african region