Product Description: Les évaluations des besoins sont vitales pour identifier les nécessités d'une population touchée par une situation d'urgence et envisager l'action humanitaire à entreprendre. Pour évaluer la situation humanitaire, une participation accrue des populations touchées a été maintes fois préconisée...read more

Product Description: The goal of this course is to provide participants with the foundational skills needed to begin the development, implementation and ongoing improvement of a congenital anomalies surveillance program, in particular for countries with limited resources...read more

Product Description: At the beginning of the twenty first century, many scientific, social, economic and technological advances have been made in health care. Yet every day, approximately 1000 women die from pregnancy-related complications and childbirth, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia...read more

Product Description: International Nonproprietary Names (INN) identify pharmaceutical substances or active pharmaceutical ingredients. Each INN is a unique name that is globally recognized and is public property. A nonproprietary name is also known as a generic name...read more

Product Description: The World Health Organization’s Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030 has been developed with the aim to help countries to reduce the human suffering caused by the world’s deadliest mosquito-borne disease. Adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2015, it provides comprehensive technical guidance to countries and development partners for the next 15 years, emphasizing the importance of scaling up malaria responses and moving towards elimination...read more

Product Description: For the prevention and management of birth defects, an enabling and supportive environment is crucial to encourage individuals, families and communities to adopt and sustain new behaviors. This is achieved through a range of health communication activities including community mobilization and media campaigns...read more

Product Description: Le Programme d'action Combler les lacunes en santé mentale, ou mhGAP (de l'anglais mental health Gap Action Programme), est un programme de l'OMS visant à répondre au manque de soins dont pâtissent les personnes atteintes de troubles mentaux, neurologiques ou liés à l'utilisation de substances psychoactives (MNS)...read more

Product Description: This SSP manual provides practical step-by-step guidance to assist in the implementation of the 2006 WHO Guidelines for Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater. However, the approach and tools in the manual can be applied to all sanitary systems to ensure the system is managed to meet health objectives...read more

Product Description: In 2010 WHO convened an expert consultation on sexual health to make recommendations on strategic directions for RHR work in this area. One of the priorities recommended was the development of sexuality counselling guidelines for health care providers as a tool to be used to facilitate the integration of this counseling into health services, mainly by primary health care workers (physicians, nurses and others)and in sexual and reproductive health services...read more

Product Description: This book in the first part reviews and synthesizes the first five years of implementation (2008–2013) of projects on health adaptation to climate variability and change in low- and middle-income countries worldwide.The second part of the report presents results of qualitative research undertaken to document lessons learned and good practice examples from health adaptation projects to facilitate assessing and overcoming barriers to implementation and to scaling up...read more

Product Description: The Pocket Book is for use by doctors, nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals. This second edition is based on evidence from several WHO updated and published clinical guidelines...read more

This is the eighteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention, care and control at global, regional and country levels using data reported by almost 200 countries that account for over 99% of the world's TB cases. Two years before the 2015 deadline for achievement of global TB targets, the 2013 report includes a special supplement that assesses progress towards the 2015 targets and the actions needed to accelerate towards or move beyond them. The report has 8 main chapters. The introductory chapter provides general background on TB as well as an explanation of global targets for TB control, the WHO's Stop TB Strategy that covers the period 2006-2015 and the development of a post-2015 global TB strategy. The remaining seven chapters cover the disease burden caused by TB (incidence, prevalence, mortality); TB case notifications and treatment outcomes; drug resistance surveillance among TB patients and the programmatic response in detecting and providing treatment for multidrug-resistant TB; diagnostics and laboratory strengthening for TB; addressing the co-epidemics of TB and HIV; financing TB care and control; and research and development for new TB diagnostics, drugs and vaccines.

Product Description: The third edition of the International Medical Guide for Ships shows designated first-aid providers how to diagnose, treat, and prevent the health problems of seafarers on board ship.Since its first publication in 1967, the International Medical Guide for Ships has been a standard reference for medical care on board ships...read more