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…

This volume contains briefings from members of the drafting group and from leading representatives of various physician, patient and citizens’ groups, as well as from the Council of Europe. Patients’…

This report presents the recommendations of a WHO Expert Committee commissioned to coordinate activities leading to the adoption of international recommendations for the production and control of vaccines and other…

The established WHO Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) Vaccine Deployment Initiative represented the first coordinated global response to an influenza pandemic. Between June 2009 and October 2010, WHO, other technical agencies, donor…

World Health Organization has developed these guidelines with recommendations on how best to protect workers from the potential risks of manufactured nanomaterials (MNMs). The recommendations are intended to help policy-makers…

This book contains the guidelines adopted by the Conference of the Parties. These seven guidelines cover a wide range of provisions of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control such…

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)…

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…