1 Coordinator, Vaccines Assessment and Monitoring, Department of Vaccines & Biologicals, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Correspondence should be sent to this author (e-mail: [email protected]). 2 Immunization Advisor, World Health Organization, Kampala, Uganda. 3 Global Alert and Response, Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response, World Health Organization...

The existence of large amounts of information which is disperse and disorganized led to the need for a study which allowed for the identification of those less developed areas of research on "traditional" medicine. This research was intended to characterize and construct a database on the traditional health systems in various countries in Latin The goal of the study was to gather information in...

Address: 1Global Program on Evidence for Health Policy, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2Family and Community Health/ Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 3School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Australia and 4Executive Director, Evidence and Information for Policy, World Health Organization, Geneva...

The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Oral Health Programme has worked hard over the past five years to increase the awareness of oral health worldwide as an important component of general health and quality of life. Meanwhile, oral disease is still a major public health problem in high income countries and the burden of oral disease is growing in many low- and middle income countries. In ...

BACKGROUND Information is needed for development of mental health (MH) services; and particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs), where the MH systems are relatively weak. World Health Organization (WHO) has worked intensively during the last 15 years for developing a strategy in the field of MH information. METHODS The paper analyzes WHO instruments developed in this area [MH A...

In recent months, the World Health Organization (WHO), independent academic researchers, the Lancet and PLoS Medicine journals worked together to improve reporting of population health estimates. The new guidelines for accurate and transparent health estimates reporting (likely to be named GATHER), which are eagerly awaited, represent a helpful move that should benefit the field of global healt...