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Sexual and reproductive health beyond 2014: Equality, Quality of care and Accountability
(World Health Organization, 2015)
In 1994, the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) endorsed a Programme of Action that set forth an ambitious population and development strategy (1). The ICPD Programme of Action was remarkable in ...
Beyond the mortality advantage: investigating women's health in Europe
(World Health Organization, 2015)
Women in the WHO European Region have better health than those in most countries of the world (1), but that does not hold for all women. Inequities – the systematic differences that are avoidable, remediable and unfair – ...
A conceptual framework for action on the social determinants of health
(World Health Organization, 2010)
Conceptual frameworks in a public health context shall in the best of worlds serve two equally important purposes: guide empirical work to enhance our understanding of determinants and mechanisms and guide policy-making ...
WHO Model List of Essential Medicines
(World Health Organization, 2017-03)
The core list presents a list of minimum medicine needs for a basic health-care system, listing the most efficacious, safe and cost–effective medicines for priority conditions. Priority conditions are selected on the basis ...
Human Rights and Gender Equality in Health Sector Strategies: How to Assess Policy Coherence
(World Health Organization, 2011)
This tool was developed by the departments of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights and Gender, Women and Health of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the ...
Ensuring human rights within contraceptive programmes: A human rights analysis of existing quantitative indicators
(World Health Organization, 2014)
Work on this guidance was initiated and coordinated by Lale Say (Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization [WHO]).
A group with expertise in human rights, contraceptive programming and ...
Clinical management of rape and intimate partner violence survivors
(World Health Organization, 2020)
This document is an update of, and replaces, Clinical management of rape survivors: developing protocols for use with refugees and internally displaced persons, which was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), ...
Gender Mainstreaming for Health Managers: a practical approach
(World Health Organization, 2011)
The development of this manual has entailed a long process of almost four years of development and piloting (or learning-by-doing). This approach was adopted to ensure that the materials respond to regional and country ...