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- Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) - World Health Organization (WHO)
People with severe disease and those needing hospital treatment should receive treatment as soon as possible The consequences of severe COVID-19 include death, respiratory failure, sepsis, thromboembolism (blood clots), and multiorgan failure, including injury of the heart, liver or kidneys
- WHO statement on attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital and reported large . . .
WHO strongly condemns the attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip The hospital was operational, with patients, health and care givers, and internally displaced people sheltering there Early reports indicate hundreds of fatalities and injuries The hospital was one of 20 in the north of the Gaza Strip facing evacuation orders from the Israeli military The order for
- International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
ICD purpose and uses As a classification and terminology ICD-11: allows the systematic recording, analysis, interpretation and comparison of mortality and morbidity data collected in different countries or regions and at different times;
- Primary health care - World Health Organization (WHO)
Primary health care (PHC) addresses the majority of a person’s health needs throughout their lifetime This includes physical, mental and social well-being and it is people-centred rather than disease-centred PHC is a whole-of-society approach that includes health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care
- World Health Organization (WHO)
The United Nations agency working to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable
- The WHO Logo and Emblem - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO's emblem was chosen by the First World Health Assembly in 1948 The emblem consists of the United Nations symbol surmounted by a staff with a snake coiling round it
- Biography - World Health Organization (WHO)
New strategy One year after Dr Tedros’s election, at the World Health Assembly in 2018, WHO Member States adopted the 13 th General Programme of Work (GPW13), a 5-year-strategic plan with an emphasis on delivering a measurable impact in countries, to support countries in attaining the health-related targets in the Sustainable Development Goals
- World Health Day 2025: messages - World Health Organization (WHO)
World Health Day 2025 "Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures" is a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health The campaign urge governments and the health community to ramp up efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths, and to prioritize women’s longer-term health and well-being
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