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Strengthening health systems: a practical handbook for resilience testing
By Julia Zimmermann, Charlotte McKee, Marina Karanikolos, Jonathan Cylus and members of the OECD Health Division The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the critical need for health systems to be resilient...
WHO launches directory of resources for planning healthy environments
In an effort to address the pressing global challenges from environmental risks, the World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled a comprehensive directory of resources aimed at guiding urban...
Bangladesh + 1 more
2024 Joint Response Plan: Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis (January - December 2024)
UN and partners seek $852.4m to support Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi hosts Geneva, 13 March 2024 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, with other humanitarian partners, today called on the international...
Repository of systematic reviews on interventions in environment, climate change and health
Overview The Repository of systematic reviews on interventions in environment, climate change and health (ECH) highlights the state of evidence on interventions in major ECH topics that improve...
Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER), 16 February 2024, Vol. 99, No 7, pp. 69-82 [EN/FR]
Contents 69 36th meeting of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication, 5–6 October 2023 Sommaire 69 36 e réunion du Groupe spécial international pour l’éradication des maladies, 5-6...
Survey reveals gaps in water, sanitation and climate-resilience in health care facilities in Lao PDR
8 February 2024, Vientiane, Lao PDR: Health care facilities in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) face significant gaps in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services, leaving them highly...
Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance on health and environment: version with International Classification of Health Intervention (ICHI) codes
Overview In this version of the compendium, each guidance is coded using the International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI). The compendium provides a systematic compilation of published...
oPt + 14 more
WHO's Health Emergency Appeal 2024
FOREWORD The threats of climate change, extreme weather events, food insecurity, conflict and displacement are intersecting, causing deeper and increasingly complex health emergencies. In 2024,...
World + 37 more
Through their eyes: a report of three special projects to explore the new future in the Western Pacific Region
Executive summary The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caught the world unprepared, revealing society’s vulnerabilities, systemic fragility and lack of resilience. In 2020, the Data, Strategy...
World + 16 more
Global health achievements 2023: Reasons for hope
In 2023, we celebrated 75 years of the World Health Organization (WHO). It was a year to reflect on 75 years of global health achievements, while facing the multiple and complex challenges affecting...
Plus de 40 millions de professionnels de santé exigent des mesures audacieuses dans le domaine de la santé et du climat à la COP28
À l'occasion de la toute première Journée de la santé, lors de la Conférence des Parties à la Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques, plus de 40 millions de professionnels...
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Believe it or not, there’s a positive side to the climate change story
By Dr Jun Gao, Acting World Health Organization Representative to the South Pacific and Christophe Bahuet, Deputy Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Development Programme With...
41 bailleurs de fonds et partenaires approuvent de nouveaux principes directeurs pour le financement de solutions climatiques et sanitaires visant à protéger la santé
Les principes directeurs répondent aux appels lancés par les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire en faveur de la mobilisation de financements qui sauvent et sauveront des vies, alors que la crise...
Climate change is causing suffering, death and destruction – concerted climate action is our only hope for survival
Statement by WHO Regional Director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, at COP28 in Dubai Your excellencies, dear friends, I am delighted to see such strong representation from our Region at COP28...
41 funders, partners endorse new guiding principles for financing climate and health solutions to protect health
Guiding Principles respond to low- and middle-income countries’ calls to mobilize finance to save lives now and in the future as the climate crisis threatens global health A consortium of...
GCF, UNDP and WHO join forces to ramp up climate health support for developing countries
New partnership to develop global Climate and Health Co-Investment Facility The Green Climate Fund (GCF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Health Organization (WHO)...
El Informe anual de la OMS sobre el paludismo pone de relieve la creciente amenaza del cambio climático
Según un nuevo informe publicado por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), a pesar de las mejoras registradas en el acceso a los mosquiteros tratados con insecticida y a los medicamentos para...
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Le rapport annuel de l’OMS sur le paludisme met en évidence la menace croissante que fait peser le changement climatique
Malgré les avancées réalisées pour élargir l’accès aux moustiquaires imprégnées d’insecticide et aux médicaments destinés à prévenir le paludisme chez les jeunes enfants et les femmes enceintes, de...
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World malaria report 2023 [EN/AR/RU/ZH]
WHO’s annual malaria report spotlights the growing threat of climate change Despite strides in expanding access to insecticide-treated nets and medicines to help prevent malaria in young children and...