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Gender, Climate Change and Health
There is now strong evidence that the earth’s climate is changing rapidly, mainly due to human activities. Increasing temperatures, sea-level rises, changing patterns of precipi...
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Household Air pollution attributable deaths
Number of deaths attributable to household air pollution resulting from solid fuels for cooking. Evidence from epidemiological studies have shown that exposure to smoke from inc...
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Climate change and health in the Western Pacific Region : synthesis of evidence, profiles of selected countries and policy direction
This report synthesizes information and approaches on climate change and health pertinent to Member States in the Western Pacific Region. It also examines efforts and initiative...
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WHO Executive Board, 144: Health, environment and climate change: draft WHO global strategy on health, environment and climate change
This draft strategy aims to provide a vision and way forward on how the world and its health community need to respond to environmental health risks and challenges until 2030, a...
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WHO Executive Board 142: Health, environment and climate change Report by the Director-General
This is a report by the Director-General on actions taken on the interlinkages between human health and biodiversity, for consideration by the Seventy-first World Health Assembl...
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Preventing disease through healthy environments: a global assessment of the burden of disease from environmental risks
this report presents a wide-ranging assessment and detailed ndings to show by how much and in what ways improving the environment can promote health and well-being. The realiza...
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WHO Dengue situation update 557
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection causing a severe flu-like illness and sometimes causing a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. Dengue is a rapidly em...
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WHO Dengue situation update 583
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection causing a severe flu-like illness and sometimes causing a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. Dengue is a rapidly em...
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Development and Climate Change in the Mekong Region
The countries of the Mekong Region have mostly continued in their path of rapid economic growth and increasing regional economic integration. However, poverty and social inequal...
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Dengue increase likely during rainy season: WHO warns
Several Asian countries are experiencing unusually high numbers of dengue cases for this time of year. With the rainy season approaching, the World Health Organization (WHO) is ...
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Dengue and severe dengue Key facts
This WHO website summarizes facts on dengue fever.
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WHO scales up response to worldwide surge in dengue
An article on the recent increase in dengue fever cases by WHO. It gives an overview on the current situation and how WHO is responding to it.
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Strong country capacity, improved tools and community engagement critical to enhancing dengue prevention and control
This article discusses the current rapid increase in dengue cases around the world and how countries can improve their capacity to respond to this.
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Dengue: guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control
The magnitude of the dengue problem has increased dramatically and has extended geographically to many previously unaffected areas. It was then, and remains today, the most impo...
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Summary of evaluation of dengue strategic plan for the Asia Pacific region 2008-2015
In 2008, the fifty-ninth session of the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific endorsed the Dengue Strategic Plan for the Asia Pacific Region 2008–2015. This served as a roa...
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Regional Report on Nutrition Security in ASEAN, Volume 2
In 2014, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) published the “Regional Report on Nutrition Security in ASEAN, Volume 1”,...
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Regional report on nutrition security in ASEAN, Volume 1
The association of Southeast asian nations, or ASEAN, aims to accelerate economic growth and social progress by promoting active collaboration and mutual assistance on matters o...
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Malnutrition Gap as a New Measure of Child Malnutrition : A Global Application
“Leaving no one behind” is an overarching principle of the Sustainable Development Goals. Many countries are prioritizing resources for those who are furthest behind. Existing m...
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The burden of disease from inadequate water in low- and middle-income countries 2016
This dataset includes variables on the burden of disease due to inadequate water in low- and middle-income countries from 2016.
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Dengue fever cases 2010-2019 for Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam
This dataset compiles data from suspected and confirmed dengue fever cases from Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam between 2010 and 2019.