Executive summary Although health outcomes have improved in low-income and middle-
income countries (LMICs) in the past several decades, a new reality is at hand. Changing …

National health systems need strengthening if they are to meet the growing challenge of
chronic diseases in low-income and middle-income countries. By application of an accepted …

Page 1 WHO guideline on self-care interventions for health and well-being, 2022 revision
World Health Organization human reproduction programme hrp research for impact UNDP …

The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex
Trafficking. By Sally Engle Merry. Chicago an ensuring that federal constitutional guarantees …

Background Measurement of the global burden of disease with disability-adjusted life-years
(DALYs) requires disability weights that quantify health losses for all non-fatal …

Executive summary The Healthy Cities movement has been in process for almost 30 years,
and the features needed to transform a city into a healthy one are becoming increasingly …

The use of indicators is a prominent feature of contemporary global governance. Indicators
are used to compare and rank states for purposes as varied as deciding how to allocate …

Background Approximately one-third of a million women die each year from pregnancy-
related conditions. Three-quarters of these deaths are considered avoidable. Millennium …

Since 2000, the emergence of several large disease-specific global health initiatives (GHIs)
has changed the way in which international donors provide assistance for public health …

Latin America continues to segregate different social groups into separate health-system
segments, including two separate public sector blocks: a well resourced social security for …