OBJECTIVES To describe the characteristics of patients reported with acute flaccid paralysis between 1997 and 2002, and to evaluate the performance of the acute flaccid paralysis surveillance system using indicators recommended by the World Health Organization. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Department of Health, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Children aged younger than 15 years who were re...

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BACKGROUND For people who have a mobility impairment, access to an appropriate wheelchair is an important step towards social inclusion and participation. The World Health Organization Guidelines for the Provision of Manual Wheelchairs in Less Resourced Settings emphasize the eight critical steps for appropriate wheelchair services, which include: referral, assessment, prescription, funding and...

The World Health Organization has endorsed the use of outreach to promote: efficient redeployment of the health-care workforce; continuity of care at the local level; and professional support for local, rural, health-care workers. Australia is the only country that has had, since 2000, a sustained national policy on outreach for subsidizing medical specialist outreach to rural areas. This paper...

This is a summary of the presentations and discussion of Panel 2.18, Logistics, Information Technology, and Telecommunications in Crisis Management of the Conference, Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Phuket, Thailand, 04-06 May 2005. The topics discussed included issues related to logistics, information technology (IT), and crisi...

World Bank Without wishing to incriminate them in any way, I am grateful to Deon Filmer, Maureen Lewis, and Martin Ravallion for comments on an earlier draft of this paper. The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent....

BACKGROUND Legislation and regulation of pesticides used in public health are essential for reducing risks to human health and the environment. OBJECTIVE We assessed the global situation on legislation and regulatory control of public health pesticides. METHODS A peer-reviewed and field-tested questionnaire was distributed to 142 member states of the World Health Organization (WHO); 113 sta...

On June 27, 2001, the World Health Organization conducted hearings in Geneva for a Special Report on Genomics & Health. Initially intended as a document to address the ethical, legal, and social implications of the gathering genomics resolution (ELSI), the terms of reference of the report were significantly modified to give primary emphasis to a scientific and technological assessment of the im...

introduction: world health organization (who) attempts to update icd-10 (international classification diseases-10 th version) according to the required information of the scientific community. in this study, changes of icd-10 will be reviewed in updating process. methods: the data of the present descriptive study was extracted from the world health organization website. the data were interprete...