Search Tag: WHO
2024 01 Apr
Today during World Health Worker Week, the World Health Organization (WHO) published guidance on Bilateral agreements on health worker migration and mobility . The guidance was developed by WHO and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, with the International Labour Organization, as part of the Working for Health programme....Read more
2024 25 Mar
The Honourable Tulia Ackson, President of the IPU, Secretary General Martin Chungong, Excellencies, Honourable Members of Parliament, Dear colleagues and friends, It is an honour and a pleasure to join you today. As a former Ethiopian parliamentarian and minister myself, I have seen first-hand the power of parliaments...Read more
2024 06 Feb
A recent report released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) ahead of World Cancer Day sheds light on the escalating burden of cancer worldwide. According to fresh projections, the number of new cancer cases in Europe is anticipated to rise by 22.5 percent over the next twenty years. Globally, there is an estimated 55 percent...Read more
2024 06 Feb
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the establishment of the Health Technology Access Pool (HTAP) as the successor to the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP). This initiative aims to ensure equitable and affordable access to essential health products globally. WHO leverages pandemic experience into expanding access to...Read more
2024 25 Jan
By Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , Director-General of the World Health Organization; Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber , President-designate of COP 28 United Nations Climate Change Conference; and Dr Vanessa Kerry , WHO Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, CEO of Seed Global Health In the face of one of the greatest health threats...Read more
2023 04 Dec
More than 40 million health professionals worldwide joined WHO’s call to action on the first-ever Health Day at COP. Health works urgently plead for more immediate and decisive measures to phase out fossil fuels, transition to clean energy, enhance resilience, and provide support to the most vulnerable individuals and communities facing the harshest...Read more
2023 13 Apr
A newly adopted bold declaration urges political action and commitment to protect, support and invest in health and care workers across Europe and central Asia. Representatives from 50 Member States of the WHO European Region are joining forces with health workers, their unions and associations, along with academics and experts to support this...Read more
2022 05 Sep
Medication error has been defined as “a reduction in the probability of treatment being timely and effective, or an increase in the risk of harm relating to medicines and prescribing compared with generally accepted practice” (WHO, 2016; 4). Serious medication errors lead to undesirable outcomes, including but not limited to poor quality of life,...Read more
2022 19 Jul
Official data published this week by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF show the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in approximately 30 years. The number of children receiving three doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) has decreased by 5 percentage points between 2019 and 2021 to 81%....Read more
2022 21 May
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) in a statement on Friday, they confirmed over 80 cases of monkeypox in 11 countries. The outbreaks are occurring in countries where monkeypox is not endemic, which has raised concern. In Europe, cases have been observed in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. Cases have...Read more
2022 25 Apr
The World Health Organization (WHO) will focus on the theme of ‘Long Life for All’ for World Immunization Week, 24-30 April 2022. The goal is to bring people to understand that vaccines let us to pursue our dreams, protect our loved ones, and make it possible for us to live a long & healthy life. Every April, World Immunization Week brings people frRead more
2022 20 Jan
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2021 16 Sep
World Patient Safety Day is an official WHO campaign for all healthcare system stakeholders to unite and improve patient safety globally. The 72nd World Health Assembly (May 2019), representing all 194 WHO member states, established World Patient Safety Day through resolution WHA72.6 to boost patient safety comprehension, increase public engagement...Read more
2021 26 May
While overall COVID-19 cases and deaths have fallen worldwide over the past few weeks, the threat from the now 18-month pandemic has not passed and the world remains in a dangerous situation, according to the director-general of the World Health Organization. "No country should assume it is out of the woods, no matter its vaccination rate,"...Read more
2021 30 Jan
The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its Essential Diagnostics List that for the first time includes WHO-recommended COVID-19 tests, and urged countries to prioritise investments in testing. You might also like: WHO-led Discussion on COVID-19 Vaccines WHO has been publishing a yearly essential diagnostics list...Read more
2020 08 Sep
September 17th is WHO’s World Patient Safety Day. There’s no better moment in history to call for new legislation that finally ensures health worker and patient safety. Today, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation released a detailed white paper and its leadership issued the following statement urging the creation of a National Patient Safety...Read more
2020 11 May
Summary: For the past 15 years Prof. Andy Tatem has been working with population data globally, and his team was one of the first to analyse the COVID-19 spread and interventions during the outbreak in China. He speaks with HealthManagement.org about public health measures, COVID-19 changing the nature of research, and how data could and should be...Read more
2020 12 Apr
As of 12 April , the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases around the world is approaching 1.8 million. Almost 110,000 people have died and over 404,000 recovered. Despite the declines in deaths in Italy and Spain and other European nations, such as t he Netherlands, Ireland and Austria approaching their peaks, others are still facing...Read more
2020 07 Apr
7 April is World Health Day, and this International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife it celebrates the work of nurses and midwives and their critical role in keeping the world healthy with t he tagline 'Support nurses and midwives.' To mark this day, the World Health Organization has released the first ever State of the World’s Nursing 2020...Read more
2020 06 Apr
The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to expand its COVID-19 resource base for policymakers and decision-makers with new briefs and tools aimed at helping the health systems to manage the current novel coronavirus crisis. You may also like: Free Online COVID-19 Educational Resources for Healthcare Workers Strengthening the...Read more
2020 17 Mar
As of morning 17 March, there are 182,388 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, in the world, with 7,152 fatal and 79,432 recovered. After China (over 81,000 confirmed cases and more than 3,200 deaths), Italy has the highest number of confirmed cases, with almost 25,000. Iran and South Korea also have significant outbreaks, with...Read more
2020 13 Mar
The novel coronavirus COVID-19 continues its spread globally. Public authorities are implementing various measures to contain or delay it, from complete or partial territorial lockdowns to closing schools to banning larger public gatherings. In this situation healthcare systems are on the front line, and hospitals and healthcare leadership...Read more
2020 11 Mar
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, ie the ‘worldwide spread’ of a new disease. You may also like: COVID-19 Forces Healthcare Congresses Cancellations “We have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of...Read more
2020 03 Mar
Eliminating water from presurgical hand preparation and instead adopting exclusive use of alcohol-based hand scrub may save modern health care facilities millions in costs and potentially conserve water resources. You may also like : Robots Cut C.difficile Transmissions A new study ( Javitt et al. 2020 ) found that at a...Read more
2020 07 Feb
The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) continues to grow. WHO and other institutions and organisations around the world are trying to implement measures to contain the outbreak and find treatments. You may also like: WHO Declares Public Health Emergency WHO is convening a global research...Read more
2020 05 Feb
Dr Hans Kluge was endorsed by WHO’s Executive Board as the new regional director for Europe for the next five years. His work would span over the 53 countries of the WHO European Region with a population of 900 million people. You may also like: Alexandre Lourenço: New HealthManagement.org EXEC Editor-In-Chief A medical doctor...Read more
2020 30 Jan
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), is reconvening the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on 30 January, to advise on whether the current outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). The meeting is planned to start at 13:30 Geneva...Read more