Antimicrobial resistance threatens great achievements in modern medicine and public health. Alarming levels of resistance to common hospital and community-acquired pathogens have been reported across the world. Microorganisms, especially bacteria…

This second edition of the WHO Health Financing Country Profiles can help improve the monitoring and evaluation of countries’ health financing policies. The profiles offer snapshots of the health financing…

Based on a review of available literature this monograph explores the links between poverty and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) with particular reference to the Western Pacific Region. The project was specifically…

The lack of universal access to eye-care services has varying causes across the Western Pacific Region. Some countries lack the capacity to provide specialised health services and trained eye-care personnel…

This report deals with women’s health in the Western Pacific Region. It shows that women and girls have particular health needs that remain invisible and little understood and that health…

This report deals primarily with the analysis of the drinking-water and sanitation situation in the member countries of the Thematic Working Group on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (TWG WSH), based…

Chronic noncommunicable diseases make up a large part of the burden of disease and make a huge call on health systems’ resources. Clinical guidelines are one of the ways European…

There is an increasing dependence on clinical and public health laboratories for better patient management and also for preventing the spread of emerging pathogens. With rapid and significant growth of…