Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: technique, projections, radiographic, imaging, diagnostic, manual
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2003-12-16
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 9241546085
ISBN-13: 9789241546089

The present volume in the series, the manual of Radiographic Technique and Projections, provides practical assistance and guidelines for exposures, projections and positioning of a patient as needed for a majority of common radiographic examinations. Although each examination needs to be tailor-made according to clinical problems, size and age of patients, and type of equipment used, this manual offers basic generic information, which can easily be modified according to local needs. Backed by sophisticated computer graphics, this manual will prove essential assistance and help to anybody invol

Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: policy, development, action, considerations, people, emergencies, older
Number of Pages: 44
Published: 2008-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 9241547391
ISBN-13: 9789241547390

Older people have often been overlooked in disasters and conflicts, and their concerns have rarely been addressed by emergency programs or planners. This analysis seeks to highlight factors that particularly affect older people in emergencies, especially health-related concerns, propose a strategy to raise awareness about older people in emergencies and recommend policies and practices to address these considerations. Until recently, older people’s needs in disasters and conflicts were addressed only by broader adult health and humanitarian programs. This has changed as several r

Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: health, world, report, century, security, reports, future, safer, global, public
Number of Pages: 95
Published: 2012-08-23
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 9241563443
ISBN-13: 9789241563444

The world has changed dramatically since then. Now, every day, up to three million people travel by air to another city, another country, or another continent. Every day, millions of tons of cargo are shipped around the world by air, land and sea. Every day, the constant movement of people and products carries with it the potential to spread highly infectious diseases and other hazards more rapidly than at any time in history. A sudden health crisis in one region of the world is now only a few hours away from becoming a public health emergency in another. In the last five years, WHO has verifi

Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: skinfold, circumference, triceps, subscapula, head, growth, standards, child
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2007-10-30
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 9241547189
ISBN-13: 9789241547185

A comprehensive review of the uses and interpretation of anthropometric references undertaken by WHO in the early 1990s concluded that new growth curves were needed to replace the existing international reference. To develop new standards, a multi-country study was carried out to collect primary growth data and related information from 8440 healthy breastfed infants and young children from diverse ethnic backgrounds and cultural settings (Brazil, Ghana, India, Norway, Oman and the USA). The first set of growth standards (length/ height-for-age, weight-for-age, weight-for- length, weight-

Authors:World Health Organization, Who,
Publisher: World Health Organizatio
Keywords: food, response, systems, safety, prevention, issues, strengthening, threats, guidance, establishing, terrorist
Number of Pages: 45
Published: 2003-01-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9241545844
ISBN-13: 9789241545846

The malicious contamination of food for terrorist purposes is a real and current threat, and deliberate contamination of food at one location could have global public health implications. This book responds to increasing concern in WHO s Member States that chemical, biological or radionuclear agents might be used deliberately to harm civilian populations and that food might be a vehicle for disseminating such agents. The two major strategies for countering the threat of food sabotage are prevention and response, including preparedness. Chapter 1 introduces the problem and places it in the cont

Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: health, environmental, criteria, chemicals, exposure, series, associated, evaluating, risks, children, principles
Number of Pages: 329
Published: 2007-05-30
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 924157237X
ISBN-13: 9789241572378

This new volume in the Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) Series provides a systematic analysis of the scientific principles to be considered in assessing health risks in children; taking into account their unique susceptibilities. The terms children and child as used in this report include the stages of development from conception through adolescence. This new EHC builds on previous volumes addressing methodologies for assessing risks in children: EHC 30, Principles for Evaluating Health Risks to Progeny Associated with Exposure to Chemicals During Pregnancy (WHO, 1984) and EHC 59, Principle

Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: assurance, pharmaceuticals, quality, inspection, practices, manufacturing
Number of Pages: 413
Published: 2007-06-06
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 9241547081
ISBN-13: 9789241547086

Quality assurance of pharmaceutical products is a continuing concern of WHO. Despite efforts made around the world to ensure a supply of quality and effective medicines, substandard, spurious and counterfeit products still compromise health care delivery in many countries. To respond to the global need for adequate quality assurance of pharmaceuticals, WHO’s Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations has over the years made numerous recommendations to establish standards and guidelines and to promote the effective functioning of national regulatory and control