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    Principles for the Toxicological Assessment of Pesticide Residues in Food

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    Explains the principles, concepts and definitions used by the joint FAO/WHO meeting on pesticide residues (JMPR) when assessing toxicological data on pesticide residues in food and establishing acceptable daily intakes.

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    Selected Mycotoxins, Ochratoxins, Trichothecenes, Ergot

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    An evaluation of the risks to human health posed by the consumption of food contaminated with ochratoxins, trichothecenes or ergot. Health effects possibly linked to these mycotoxins range from gastrointestinal…

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    Aldicarb

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    An evaluation of the risks to human health and the environment posed by aldicarb, a carbamate insecticide applied, exclusively in granular form and below the soil surface, to control certain…

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    WHO Expert Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants

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    A collection of 28 monographs covering the quality control and traditional and clinical uses of selected medicinal plants. Each entry covers pharmacopoeical summaries, botanical features, distribution, identity tests, chemical assays…

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    Manual of Basic Techniques for a Health Laboratory

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    The second edition of a practical guide to the safe and accurate performance of basic laboratory techniques. The book emphasizes simple, economical procedures that can yield accurate results where resources…

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    WHO Model Prescribing Information: Drugs Used in Bacterial Infections

    World Health Organization(WHO)

    WHO Model Prescribing Information provides up-to-date and clinical information on essential drugs, including details of dosage, uses, contraindications and adverse effects.

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    Alpha- and Beta-hexachloro-cyclohexanes (Alpha- and Beta-HCHs)

    World Health Organization(WHO)

    An evaluation of the risks to human health and the environment posed by exposure to alpha- and beta-hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCH). These two isomers are by-products in the manufacturing of lindane and…

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    1-Propanol

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    Evaluates the risks to human health and the environment posed by the production, use and waste disposal of 1-propanol, a colourless, highly flammable liquid used primarily as a multipurpose solvent…

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    International Classification of Procedures in Medicine

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    A systematic authoritative classification of the many procedures used in different branches of medicine. Chapters cover procedures for medical diagnosis laboratory procedures preventive procedures surgical operations other therapeutic procedures and

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    Complications of Abortion: Technical and Managerial Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment

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    This publication contains guidelines for improving the quality and availability of abortion care. It examines the role of education, family planning and improved access to health services in reducing the…

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    The Management of Acute Respiratory Infections in Children: Practical Guidelines for Outpatient Care

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    This text is a guide to the management of acute respiratory infections in children under five years of age. It offers detailed instructions on recognition of the symptoms of respiratory…

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    International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: ICF

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    This text describes how people live with their health condition. It is a classification of health-related domains that describe body functions and structures, activities and participation. Domains are classified from…

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    The World Health Report: Health Systems Financing: The Path to Universal Coverage

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    This World Health Report was produced under the overall direction of Carissa Etienne … and Anarfi Asamoa Baah … The principal writers were David B. Evans … [et al] –…

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    Who Research into Global Hazards of Travel (Wright) Project: Final Report of Phase 1

    World Health Organization(WHO)

    Sets out the findings of epidemiological studies carried out during the first phase of the Wright (WHO Research Into Global Hazards of Travel) project.

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    Chloroform

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    Chloroform is a clear colourless volatile liquid with a pleasant etheric odour. It

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    The Optimal Duration of Exclusive Breastfeeding: A Systematic Review

    The longstanding debate over the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding has centered on the so-called weanling’s dilemma in developing countries: the choice between the known protective effect of exclusive breastfeeding…

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    Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality: Microbiological Agents in Drinking Water - Addendum

    World Health Organization(WHO)

    This addendum to the second edition of the Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality contains reviews pathogens that occur widely in water - aeromonas and legionella spp., vibrio cholerae, enteric hepatitis viruses…

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    Principles and Methods for the Assessment of Neurotoxicity Associated with Exposure to Chemicals

    World Health Organization(WHO)

    Generally accepted scientific priniciples and requirements applied to neurotoxicology.

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    Maintenance and Repair of Laboratory, Diagnostic Imaging and Hospital Equipment

    World Health Organization(WHO)

    This manual provides practical guidance on the maintenance and repair of a wide range of biomedical equipment. It is intended for use in health care institutions that do not have…

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    The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Clinical Description and Diagnostic Guidelines

    World Health Organization(WHO)

    Clinical descriptions, diagnostic guidelines and codes for mental and behavioural disorders encountered in clinical psychiatry. The book has been developed from chapter V of the 10th revision of The International…

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    Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters: A Practical Guide

    World Health Organization(WHO)

    Aimed at practitioners, policymakers and researchers, this volume distills knowledge of environmental health during an emergency or disaster. It draws on results from the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction…

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    Principles and Methods for Assessing Direct Immunotoxicity Associated with Exposure to Chemicals

    World Health Organization(WHO)

    This text provides a guide to general strategies and specific methods for testing the immunotoxicity of chemicals in animal models and humans. It looks at the capacity of environmental agents…

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    Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care

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    This report considers what can, and should be done to comfort patients suffering from distressing symptoms of advanced cancer. The book draws together the evidence and arguments needed to define…

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    Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality

    World Health Organization(WHO),World Health Organization

    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

    World Health Organization,World Health Organization(WHO)

    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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    Hypertension Control: Report of a WHO Expert Committee

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    This report reviews the epidemiology and pathophysiology of hypertension, enumerates its risk factors and predictors, and makes specific proposals for its prevention and control in populations.

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    Cadmium, Nickel, Some Epoxides, Miscella Neous Industrial Chemicals and General Considerations on Volatile Anaesthetics. IARC Vol 11

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    Evaluates the carcinogenic risk to humans posed by Cadmium, Nickel, Some Epoxides, Miscellaneous Industrial Chemicals and General Considerations on Volatile Anaesthetics. IARC Vol 11

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    International Certificate of Vaccination: International Health Regulation (2005) (English, French and Arabic)

    World Health Organization(WHO),UNAIDS,World Health Organization

    This WHO booklet includes the Model International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis contained in Annex 6 of the International Health Regulations (2005). The Certificate is used for recording vaccinations or…

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    Bench AIDS for Malaria Microscopy

    World Health Organization(WHO),World Health Organization,UNAIDS,World Health Organization

    Bench Aids for Malaria Microscopy is a set of twelve plastic laminated A4-size plates produced as aids for the microscopic diagnosis of human malaria. They are intended for use as…

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    The International Pharmacopoeia: Pharmacopoea Internationalis

    World Health Organization(WHO),World Health Organization,UNAIDS,World Health Organization

    Along with the monographs in the third edition, this fourth edition includes monographs for didanosine, indinavir sulfate, nelfinavir mesilate, nevirapine, ritonavir, saquinovir, saquinovir mesilate. It inludes the monograph texts in…

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    Calcium and Magnesium in Drinking Water: Public Health Significance

    World Health Organization(WHO),World Health Organization,Unaids

    Can calcium and magnesium (‘hardness’) in drinking water contribute to preventing disease? This book documents the outputs of an unprecedented group of experts assembled by the World Health Organization to…

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    The World Health Organization (WHO)

    Kelley Lee

    This book provides the reader with an overview of the World Health Organization, the key organization for international health cooperation.

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    The World Health Organization (WHO)

    Kelley Lee

    This book provides the reader with an overview of the World Health Organization, the key organization for international health cooperation.

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    Healthy Housing: A practical guide

    Ray Ranson,World Health Organization(WHO)

    The objective of this book is to encourage administrations to formulate a sound housing policy to solve basic health-related housing problems and to meet WHO’s objective of healthful housing for…

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    PHAST Step-by-step Guide: Participatory Approach for the Control of Diarrhoeal Disease

    World Health Organization(WHO)

    Supplied with inserted folded poster "Seven steps to community planning" (60 cm x 42 cm). - PHAST = Participatory hygiene and sanitation transformation

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    Pesticide Residues in Food - 2008: Evaluations 2008 Part Ii - Toxicological

    World Health Organization(WHO),Food and Agriculture Organization,World Health Organization

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

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    Pesticide Residues in Food - 2009: Part 2: Toxicological

    World Health Organization(WHO),Food and Agriculture Organization

    The monographs in this volume summarize the safety data on eight pesticides that could leave residues in food commodities. These pesticides are bifenthrin, cadusafos, chlorothalonil, chlorpyrifos-methyl, cycloxydim, fluopicolide, metaflumizone and…

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    Psychosocial Aspects of HIV and AIDS and the Evaluation of Preventive Strategies: Report on a WHO Meeting

    World Health Organization(WHO)

    The spread of HIV infection and AIDS depends on human behaviour. Individuals from some population groups have been successfully persuaded to modify behaviours that put them at increased risk of…

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    Operational Guidelines for the Management of Opiod Dependence in the South-East Asia Region

    World Health Organization(WHO)

    The South-East Asia region is home to between 3.4 and 5.6 million injecting drug users. Opioid substitution therapy (OST) is useful and cost-effective intervention for managing opioid dependence. This title…

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    FAO/WHO Framework for the Provision of Scientific Advice on Food Safety and Nutrition

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,World Health Organization(WHO)

    This document has been prepared to enhance the transparency of the practices and procedures applied by FAO and WHO to deliver scientific advice. It illustrates that the same basic principles…

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    Exposure assessment of microbiological hazards in food: guidelines (Microbiological risk assessment series)

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,World Health Organization(WHO)

    Exposure assessment is one of the four steps of microbiological risk assessment. This volume provides guidelines for the exposure assessment of microbiological hazards in food. It outlines the principles of…

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    Traditional Medicine and Health Care Coverage: A Reader for Health Administrators and Practitioners

    World Health Organization(WHO)

    A wide-ranging account of traditional medical practices is intended to provide health administrators and practitioners with background information that may help them improve health care coverage, especially in developing countries…

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    Design and Implementation of Health Information Systems

    World Health Organization(WHO),Claud Bodart,Theo Lippeveld,Rainer Sauerborn

    A practical guide to the design and implementation of health information systems in developing countries. The authors draw on their personal experiences to map out strategies, pinpoint common pitfalls, and…

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    Valuing Water, Valuing Livelihoods: Guidance on Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Drinking-Water Interventions, with Special Reference to Small Community Water Supplies

    J. Cameron,World Health Organization(WHO),International Water Association

    The aim of Valuing Water, Valuing Livelihoods is to give decision-makers, health professionals and analysts a comprehensive view of the arguments and challenges associated with establishing the value of drinking-water…

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    Animal Food Production

    FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission,Food and Agriculture Organization,World Health Organization(WHO)

    Includes basic texts on meat hygiene, animal feeding and antimicrobial resistance, including the code of hygienic practice for meat, the code of practice for good animal feeding, a glossary of…

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