Everyone should have access to the health services they need without being forced into poverty when paying for them. This report argues that universal health coverage with full access to high-quality services for prevention, treatment and financial risk protection cannot be achieved without the evid[...]

The Final Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health sets out key areas of daily living conditions and of the underlying structural drivers that influence them in which action is needed. It provides analysis of social determinants of health and concrete examples of actions that have p[...]

A pocket-sized version of the publication which describes how people live with their health condition. It is a classification of health-related domains that describe body functions and structures, activities and participation. Domains are classified from body, individual and societal perspectives.[...]

Monitoring health inequality is a practice that fosters accountability and continuous improvement within health systems. The cycle of health inequality monitoring helps to identify and track health differences between subgroups, providing evidence and feedback to strengthen equity-oriented policies,[...]

The "Atlas of Health and Climate" is a product of a unique collaboration between the meteorological and public health communities. It provides sound scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to emergencies [...]

The "Atlas of Health and Climate" is a product of a unique collaboration between the meteorological and public health communities. It provides sound scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to emergencies [...]

Member States of the WHO South-East Asia Region have made considerable efforts at providing an extra surge to their efforts down the road to achieving the targets set by the Millennium Development Goals. Since 2000, these goals have been an important yardstick for the international community to meas[...]

Following the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, attention has focused on ways to remove barriers to the participation of people with disabilities in their societies. Now a new publication, the first ever "World Report on Disabilities," produced joinly by the WHO and the World Ba[...]

According to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health' without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic status, or social condition. But how consistently and how [...]