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Supporting countries to achieve their malaria elimination goals: the WHO E-2020 initiative
Malaria Journal, 2021 Background Malaria causes more than 200 million cases of illness and 400,000 deaths each year across 90 countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) set a goal for 35 countries to eliminate malaria by 2030, with an intermediate milestone of 10 ...
Kim A. Lindblade +5 more
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Reforming the World Health Organization
JAMA, 2011 IN DECEMBER 2010, JACK CHOW, 1 THE FORMER WORLD Health Organization (WHO) assistant directorgeneral, asked, “Is the WHO becoming irrelevant?” A month later, the WHO’s executive board considered the agency’s future within global health governance. After a yearlong consultation with member states on its financing, Director-General Margaret Chan called ...
Sridhar, Devi, Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Geo-additive models of childhood undernutrition in three sub-Saharan African countries [PDF]
, 2009 We investigate the geographical and socioeconomic determinants of childhood undernutrition in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, three neighbouring countries in southern Africa, using the 1992 Demographic and Health Surveys.
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Global Health Action, 2018 The objective of this article is to present specific resources developed by the World Health Organization on equity, gender and human rights in order to support Member States in operationalizing their commitment to leave no one behind in the health ...
Gerardo Zamora +6 more
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The World Health Organization and Occupational Health [PDF]
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1951 Survey of Work by WHO To deal with special problems, the United Nations have organized several specialized agencies such as FAO for food and agricultural problems, UNESCO for education, and WHO as the specia lized agency responsible for health problems.
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Achievements and challenges for the use of killed oral cholera vaccines in the global stockpile era
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2017 Cholera remains an important but neglected public health threat, affecting the health of the poorest populations and imposing substantial costs on public health systems.
Sachin N. Desai +6 more
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Reversal of Risk after Quitting Smoking IARC HANDBOOKS OF CANCER PREVENTION, Tobacco Control, Volume 11, 2007 [PDF]
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Distribution and determinants of tuberculosis in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2012 [PDF]
, 2017 Tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health threat in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) with many challenges that limit its prevention and control. To understand how to meet these challenges, this study calculated the TB incidence rates (IRs) in KSA from
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, 2008 The World Health Organization is the global authority on health issues. Since its inception in 1948, it has made large strides in advancing its goal of the highest attainable level of health for all people. Through the years, the organization has faced many setbacks, but it has also marked numerous achievements.
Ogbu, Uzor C., Arah, Onyebuchi A.
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“Rapid-Impact Interventions”: How a Policy of Integrated Control for Africa's Neglected Tropical Diseases Could Benefit the Poor [PDF]
, 2005 Controlling seven tropical infections in Africa would cost just 40 cents per person per year, and would permanently benefit hundreds of millions of ...
Alan Fenwick +14 more
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