Author: UNAIDS
Publisher: World Health Organizatio
Keywords: risks, attributable, selected, disease, major, burden, health, mortality, global
Number of Pages: 68
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9241563877
ISBN-13: 9789241563871

This report uses a comprehensive framework for studying health risks that was developed for the World Health Report 2002, which presented estimates for the year 2000. The report provides an update for the year 2004 for 24 global risk factors. It uses updated information from WHO programs and scientific studies for both exposure data and the causal associations of risk exposure to disease and injury outcomes. The burden of disease attributable to risk factors is measured in terms of lost years of healthy life using the metric of the disability-adjusted life year (DALY). The DALY combines years

Author: UNAIDS
Publisher: World Health Organizatio
Keywords: development, adaptation, evaluation, guidelines, records, based, maternal, home
Number of Pages: 93
Published: 1994-05-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 9241544643
ISBN-13: 9789241544641

A comprehensive guide to all aspects of the development, adaptation, and use of home-based maternal records as an exciting new tool for reducing maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Home-based maternal records, which are retained by the woman and serve as her “passport” to appropriate health care, are simple cards designed to facilitate the easy recording and interpretation of comprehensive information on the health status of a woman before her first pregnancy, during the current pregnancy, delivery, postpartum and neonatal periods, and during two subsequent pregnancies. The car

Author: UNAIDS
Publisher: World Health Organizatio
Keywords: health, perspective, public, radon, indoor, handbook
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 9241547677
ISBN-13: 9789241547673

The WHO Handbook on Indoor Radon is a key product of the WHO International Radon Project, which was launched in 2005. The Handbook focuses on residential radon exposure from a public health point of view and provides detailed recommendations on reducing health risks from radon and sound policy options for preventing and mitigating radon exposure. The material in the Handbook reflects the epidemiological evidence that indoor radon exposure is responsible for a substantial number of lung cancers in the general population. The material is organized into six chapters, each introduced by key messag

Author: UNAIDS
Publisher: World Health Organizatio
Keywords: referral, first, level, developing, countries, care, guidelines, serious, child, infection, severe, malnutrition, management
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-12-01
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ISBN-10: 9241545313
ISBN-13: 9789241545310

***This book was awarded the "Prescrire" prize***This manual gives small hospitals in developing countries expert advice on the management of young children suffering from serious infections or severe malnutrition. Addressed to doctors and senior nurses, the manual aims to provide all the practical and technical guidance needed to facilitate quick decisions and life-saving interventions. Although outpatient care is included, the manual concentrates on the inpatient management of diseases known to be the major killers of children in the developing world. Conditions covered range from pneumonia,

Author: UNAIDS
Publisher: World Health Organizatio
Keywords: global, concerns, implications, future, resources, health, child, adolescent, mental, atlas
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9241563044
ISBN-13: 9789241563048

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Atlas project, like the other ATLAS projects, is a systematic attempt to collect information from countries on existing services and resources. The themes covered include: Rights of the child and adolescent, policy and programs, information systems, need for services, service system gaps, integration of services, barriers to care, care providers, training for care, financing of care and availability and use of medication.

Author: UNAIDS
Publisher: World Health Organizatio
Keywords: wastewater, volume, agriculture, greywater, excreta, safe, guidelines
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 9241546832
ISBN-13: 9789241546836

The third edition of the WHO Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta, and greywater has been extensively updated to take account of new scientific evidence and contemporary approaches to risk management. The revised Guidelines reflect a strong focus on disease prevention and public health principles. This new edition responds to a growing demand from WHO Member States for guidance on the safe use of wastewater, excreta, and greywater in agriculture and aquaculture. Its target audience includes environmental and public health scientists, researchers, engineers, policy-makers and thos

Author: UNAIDS
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: agency, field, handbook, inter, emergencies, control, complex, malaria
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2006-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 924159389X
ISBN-13: 9789241593892

This inter-agency handbook focuses on effective malaria control responses to complex emergencies, particularly during the acute phase when reliance on international humanitarian assistance is greatest. It provides policy-makers, planners, field programme managers and medical coordinators with practical guidance on designing and implementing measures to reduce malaria morbidity and mortality. Such measures must address the needs of both the displaced and the host populations and must accommodate the changes in those needs as an acute emergency evolves into a more stable situation. A glossary is