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Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9241563737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides information on medical care and health care policy from around the world.
Author: M. M. Peden
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9241563575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChild injuries are largely absent from child survival initiatives presently on the global agenda. Through this report, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund and many partners have set out to elevate child injury to a priority for the global public health and development communities. It should be seen as a complement to the UN Secretary-General's study on violence against children released in late 2006 (that report addressed violence-related or intentional injuries). Both reports suggest that child injury and violence prevention programs need to be integrated into child survival and other broad strategies focused on improving the lives of children. Evidence demonstrates the dramatic successes in child injury prevention in countries which have made a concerted effort. These results make a case for increasing investments in human resources and institutional capacities. Implementing proven interventions could save more than a thousand children's lives a day.--p. vii.
Author: WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9241563702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. We watch in wonder as life expectancy and good health continue to increase in parts of the world and in alarm as they fail to improve in others.
Author: World Health Organization
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecommendations and report outlining operational aspects, suggested national strategies; nonAboriginal material.
Author: International Agency for Research on Cancer
Publisher: International Agency for Research on Cancer
Published: 2008-12-31
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The World Cancer Report 2008" provides a comprehensive overview of cancer for all those working in the field of health-care and research, and the general reader as well. It presents information on cancer patterns, diagnosis, causes and prevention concisely, clearly outlining the growing public health crisis. Simultaneously, there is a clear message of hope: although cancer is a great and growing devastating disease, it is largely preventable.
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 7117106603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2019-01-27
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 0309477891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective care at the patient/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
Published: 2008-08-06
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ISBN-13: 9789240560291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe World Health Report 2008 analyses how primary health care reforms that embody the principles of universal access equity and social justice are an essential response to the health challenges of a rapidly changing world and the growing expectations of countries and their citizens for health and health care. For everyone interested in how progress in health care can be made in the 21st century the World Health Report 2008 is indispensable reading. This CD-ROM contains copies of the report translated in seven languages (English French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian and Portuguese).
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9789241562072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world is living dangerously - either because it has little choice or because it is making the wrong choices -- Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland WHO Director-General
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2017-04-27
Total Pages: 583
ISBN-13: 0309452961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
