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[...]
This manual informs about practical procedures in assessment of renal fluoride excretion based on experience from existing national fluoridation programs. The assessment tools will primarily be useful in assisting countries in achieving an effective fluoride exposure. It is a hope that the manual wi[...]
Almost 940 million international journeys were undertaken in 2010. Global travel on this scale exposes many people to a range of health risks--different disease agents and changes in temperature, altitude and humidity are just some of these risks--all of which can lead to ill-health. Many of these r[...]
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[...]
The past five years has seen CBR stakeholders work collaboratively to produce these CBR Guidelines, which build upon key recommendations made in 2003 at the International Consultation to Review Community-based Rehabilitation in Helsinki, and in 2004 in the ILO, UNESCO, WHO joint position paper on CB[...]
The "Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality" are one of the longest-standing normative publications of WHO. They provide an evidence-based point of departure for standard setting and regulation as a basis for health protection. They include an assessment of the health risks presented by the various m[...]
"The International Classification of Diseases for Oncology" (ICD-O) has been used for nearly 25 years as the standard tool for coding diagnoses of neoplasms in tumor and cancer registrars and in pathology laboratories. ICD-O is a dual classification with coding systems for both topography and morpho[...]