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Global health observatory data repository. Basic and safely managed drinking water services
A dataset on Basic and safely managed drinking water services. Data is sorted by country and covers time period from 2000-2017.
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State of the Basin report 2018
This State of the Basin Report 2018 assesses conditions within the Mekong basin and the impacts, both positive and negative, that developments and use of the water and related n...
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Climate and health country profiles 2015: a global overview
To protect health from risks derived from climate change, decision-makers (going from national leaders to individual citizens) need access to the best information possible on th...
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Joint effects of air pollution: Ambient and household air pollution attributable death rate (per 100,000 population; age-standardized) (2016)
As part of a broader project to assess major risk factors to health, the mortality resulting from exposure to ambient (outdoor) air pollution and household (indoor) air pollutio...
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Burden of disease from inadequate water in low- and middle-income countries 2016
As part of a broader project to assess major risk factors to health, the burden of disease resulting from exposure to water, sanitation and hygiene was assessed. Access to impro...
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Deaths attributable to the environment
The percentage of total deaths that are attributable to the environment. It represents burden of disease that could be avoided by modifying the environment. Modifiable environme...
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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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Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking (% of population)
Data for access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking. Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking is the proportion of total population primarily using clean cooki...
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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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Data and tools to integrate climate and environmental information into public health
During the last 30 years, the development of geographical information systems and satellites for Earth observation has made important progress in the monitoring of the weather, ...
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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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Progress toward universal health coverage in ASEAN
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is characterized by much diversity in terms of geography, society, economic development, and health outcomes. The health syste...
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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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Climate-resilient water safety plans: managing health risks associated with climate variability and change
Long-term planning for an adequate and safe supply of drinking-water should be set in the context of growing external uncertainties arising from changes in the climate and envir...
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Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene: 2017 update and SDG baselines
WHO and UNICEF established the Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene in 1990, and published regular global updates throughout the Millennium Develo...