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      This new edition of WHO’s Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality provides a state-of-the art perspective on issues of water quality and health and on effective approaches to water safety management.

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      WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence: Thirty-seventh Report

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      The WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) is responsible for assessing psychoactive substances for possible control under the international drug control conventions. The ECDD reviews the therapeutic usefulness, the…

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      Strategizing national health in the 21st century: a handbook

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      This handbook is designed as a resource for providing up-to-date and practical guidance on national health planning and strategizing for health. It establishes a set of best practices to support…

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      Risk Assessment of Vibrio Parahaemolyticus in Seafood

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      Vibrio parahaemolyticus are common causes of diarrhoeal disease worldwide. These marine micro-organisms, native in estuarine waters globally, concentrate in the gut of filter-feeding molluscan shellfish, such as oysters, clams and…

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      WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations: Fiftieth Report

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      The World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations advises the Director-General of WHO in the area of medicines quality assurance. It provides independent expert recommendations and…

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      Evaluation of certain contaminants in food: Eighty-third Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

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      This report represents the conclusions of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee convened to evaluate the safety of various contaminants or groups of contaminants in food. The first part of the…

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      WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations: Fifty-first Report

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      The Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations works toward clear, independent, and practical standards and guidelines for the quality assurance of medicines. Standards are developed by the Committee through…

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      The Selection and Use of Essential Medicines: Report of the WHO Expert Committee 2017 (including the 20th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and the 6th WHO Model List for Children)

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      This report presents the recommendations of the WHO Expert Committee responsible for updating the WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines. It contains a summary of the Committee’s considerations and justifications…

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      Evaluation of certain veterinary drug residues in food: Eighty-fifth report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

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      This report represents the conclusions of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee convened in 2017 to evaluate the safety of residues of certain veterinary drugs in food and to recommend maximum…

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      WHO expert consultation on rabies, third report

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      The WHO Expert Consultation on Rabies met in Bangkok, Thailand, on 26-28 April 2017 –Page 1.

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      WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence: Fortieth report

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      This report presents the recommendations of the fortieth WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD). The ECDD is responsible for the assessment of psychoactive substances for possible scheduling under the…

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      First WHO Model List of Essential In Vitro Diagnostics: Volume 1017

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      In May 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the first ever Model List of Essential In Vitro Diagnostics (EDL). The objective of the list is to help countries develop…

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      WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations: fifty-third report: Fifty-third report

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      The Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations works towards clear, independent and practical standards and guidelines for the quality assurance of medicines. Standards are developed by the Committee through…

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      Needs Assessment for Medical Devices: WHO Medical device technical series

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      WHO and partners have been working towards devising an agenda, an action plan, tools and guidelines to increase access to appropriate medical devices. This document is part of a series…

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      Legal Frameworks for Ehealth: Based on the Findings of the Second Global Survey on Ehealth

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      Given that privacy of the doctor-patient relationship is at the heart of good health care, and that the electronic health record (EHR) is at the heart of good eHealth practice…

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      Making health services adolescent friendly: developing national quality standards for adolescent-friendly health services

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      Making Health Services Adolescent Friendly: Developing National Quality Standards is intended to be a companion to the Quality Assessment Guidebook: A guide to assessing health services for adolescent clients (ISBN…

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      Health employment and economic growth: an evidence base

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      Powerful demographic and economic forces are shaping health workforce needs and demands worldwide. Effectively addressing growing population need and economic demand for health workers stands as one of our foremost…

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      Artificial tanning devices: public health interventions to manage sunbeds

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      Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer among light-skinned populations. The chief environmental cause of skin cancer is ultraviolet radiation (UVR). UVR exposure comes mainly from the sun…

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      State of health inequality: Indonesia

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      This report showcases the state of inequality in Indonesia, drawing from the latest available data across 11 health topics (53 health indicators), and eight dimensions of inequality. In addition to…

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      Mental health atlas 2017: Mental health atlas 2017

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      Mental Health Atlas series is considered the most comprehensive resource on global information on mental health and an important tool for developing and planning mental health services within countries and…

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      INSPIRE handbook: Action for implementing the seven strategies for ending violence against children

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      The INSPIRE handbook: action for implementing the seven strategies for ending violence against children explains in detail how to choose and implement interventions that will fit your needs and context…

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      Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and food: Attribution, characterization and monitoring

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      Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infections are a substantial health issue worldwide. Circa 2010, foodborne STEC caused > 1 million human illnesses, 128 deaths, and 13,000 Disability Adjusted Life Years…

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      WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2019: Offer help to quit tobacco use

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      This seventh WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic focuses on the O of MPOWER: Offer help to quit tobacco use . The report tracks the status of the tobacco…

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      Improving the Quality and Use of Birth Death & Cause-of-Death Information: Guidance for a Standards-Based Review of Country Practices

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      Accoppany guide (iv, 15 p.) in back pocket has distinctive title: Rapid assessment of national civil registration and vital statistics systems.

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      Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems

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      In view of the need for evidence-based best practices for providing safe abortion care in order to protect the health and human rights of women, the World Health Organization (WHO)…

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      Ethics in Epidemics, Emergencies and Disasters: Research, Surveillance and Patient Care: Training Manual

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      In the face of recent pandemic threats (severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), avian influenza A H5N1, pandemic influenza A H1N1 and the 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak) and disasters in…

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      Clinical management of patients with viral haemorrhagic fever: a pocket guide for front-line health workers, interim emergency guidance for country adaption

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      First published in March 2014 under the title Clinical management of patients with viral haemorrhagic fever: a pocket guide for front-line health workers: interim emergency guidance for West Africa .

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      Guide to Introducing HPV Vaccine into National Immunization Programmes

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      This document is intended for use by national immunization programme managers and immunization partners involved in providing implementation support to countries. The specific objectives of this guide are: To inform…

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      A guide to establishing a national haemovigilance system

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      Haemovigilance includes the monitoring, reporting, investigation and analysis of adverse events related to the donation, processing and transfusion of blood, and taking actions to prevent their occurrence or recurrence. The…

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      Guidelines for treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis and patient care 2017 update

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      The update of the Guidelines for treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis and patient care is important in the context of the End TB Strategy, which recommends treatment and patient support for…

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      Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused: WHO clinical guidelines

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      Sexual abuse of children and adolescents is a gross violation of their rights and a global public health problem. It adversely affects the health of children and adolescents. Health care…

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      Communicating risk in public health emergencies: a WHO guideline for emergency risk communication (ERC) policy and practice

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      The recommendations in these guidelines provide overarching, evidence-based guidance on how risk communication should be practised in an emergency. During public health emergencies, people need to know what health risks…

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      WHO recommendations on intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience

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      This up-to-date, comprehensive and consolidated guideline on essential intrapartum care brings together new and existing WHO recommendations that, when delivered as a package, will ensure good-quality and evidence-based care irrespective…

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      World Report on Ageing and Health

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      Comprehensive public health action on population ageing is urgently needed. This will require fundamental shifts, not just in the things we do, but in how we think about ageing itself…

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      WHO Estimates of the Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases: Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group 2007-2015

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      Up to now, the global burden of illness and deaths caused by foodborne disease has never been quantified. In order to fill this data vacuum, the World Health Organization (WHO)…

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      World Health Statistics 2017: Monitoring Health for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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      The World Health Statistics series is WHO’s annual compilation of health statistics for its 194 Member States. The series is produced by the WHO Department of Information, Evidence and Research…

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      Managing epidemics: Key facts about major deadly diseases

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      This manual provides concise and up-to-date knowledge on 15 infectious diseases that have the potential to become international threats, and tips on how to respond to each of them. The…

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      World Malaria Report 2019

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      The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) World malaria report 2019 summarizes global progress in the fight against malaria up to the end of 2018. This is the fourth world malaria report…

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      Safety evaluation of certain food additives and contaminants: Eighty-second Meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)

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      This volume contains monographs prepared at the eighty-second meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which met in Geneva, Switzerland, from 7 to 16 June 2016…

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      Safety evaluation of certain food additives: Eighty-fourth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)

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      The monographs contained in this volume were prepared at the eightieth meeting of the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on…

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      Pesticide Residues in Food: Toxicological Evaluations

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      The monographs in this volume summarize the safety data on 10 pesticides that could leave residues in food commodities. These pesticides are aminocyclopyrachlor, cyflumetofen, dichlobenil, flufenoxuron, imazamox, mesotrione, metrafenone, myclobutanil…

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      Pesticide Residues in Food - 2015: Toxicological Evaluations

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      The toxicological monographs and monograph addenda contained in this volume were prepared by a WHO Core Assessment Group on Pesticide Residues that met with the FAO Panel of Experts on…

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      Dons de Dispositifs Medicaux: Considerations Relatives A Leur Demande Et A Leur Attribution

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      Les meilleures pratiques et les lments de rflexion inclus dans le prsent document ont pour objet d'amliorer la qualit des dons de matriel et de procurer un maximum d'avantages tous…

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      Package Serie Technique de l'Oms Sur Les Dispositifs Medicaux

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      L'OMS et ses partenaires se sont employs concevoir un programme, un plan d'action, des outils et des principes directeurs destins tendre l'accs aux dispositifs mdicaux appropris.

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      Manuel de Mise En Oeuvre Du Test Xpert Mtb/Rif: Guide Technique Et Operationnel: Considerations Pratiques

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      In December 2010, WHO first recommended the use of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay. The WHO’s policy statement was supported by a rapid implementation document, which provided the technical how-to and…

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      Planification Strategique Des Ressources Humaines Pour La Sante: Evaluation Des Facteurs Financiers, Educationnels, Administratifs Et Politiques

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      Le present document contient une methode d evaluation des systemes financier, educationnel et administratif et du contexte politique qui constituent des elements essentiels pour la planification strategique et l elaboration…

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      Surveillance Des Soins Obstetricaux d'Urgence: Manuel d'Utilisation

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      Le prsent manuel constitue une mise jour dun document publi en 1997 par lUNICEF, lOMS et UNFPA, qui traite de la surveillance de la disponibilit et de lutilisation des services…

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