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• Burden of disease from household and ambient air pollution for 2012

  <p>WHO estimates that around 7 million people died in 2012 - 1 in 8 of total global deaths &ndash; as a result of air pollution exposure. The estimates confirm that air pollution is now the world&rsquo;s largest single environmental health risk. The new data reveal a stronger link between both indoor and outdoor air pollution exposure and cardiovascular diseases, such as strokes and ischaemic heart disease, as well as between air pollution and cancer.</p>

  • 25/03/2014

  • World Health Organization
  • • Air Pollution
    • Health Effects
    • Indoor Air Pollution
    • Diseases
    • Statistics
    • Non Communicable Diseases
    • Heart Diseases
    • Respiratory Diseases
    • Cancer

• 7 million premature deaths annually linked to air pollution

  <p>These new estimates released by WHO confirm that air pollution is now the world&rsquo;s largest single environmental health risks and show a stronger link between both indoor and outdoor air pollution exposure and cardiovascular diseases, such as strokes and ischaemic heart disease, as well as between air pollution and cancer.</p>

  • 25/03/2014

  • World Health Organization
  • • Air Pollution
    • Health Effects
    • Environmental Health
    • Respiratory Diseases
    • Non Communicable Diseases
    • Cancer
    • Heart Diseases
    • Indoor Air Pollution
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  Protecting health from climate change: vulnerability and adaptation assessment

  This document is designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting a national or subnational assessment of current and future vulnerability (i.e. the susceptibility of a population or region

  • 07/03/2014

  • World Health Organization
  • • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Health Effects
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Climate Mitigation
    • India
    • Global
    • Environmental Health
• 

  A global brief on vector-borne diseases

  This comprehensive brief explains why vector-borne diseases merit global attention. It provides detail on the vectors and the diseases they cause. It outlines the various methods of prevention and control

  • 01/03/2014

  • World Health Organization
  • • Vector Borne Diseases
    • Malaria
    • Dengue
    • Chikungunya
    • Yellow Fever
    • Health Effects
    • Diseases
    • Environment Management
    • Vector Control
    • India
    • Global

• Multi-country assessment of national capacity to provide hearing care

  WHO estimates that over 5% of the world’s population – 360 million people - has disabling hearing loss. The highest prevalence is found in the Asia Pacific, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. About half

  • 01/02/2014

  • World Health Organization
  • • Ear Diseases
    • Health Effects
    • Epidemiological Studies
    • India
    • Global
    • South Asia
    • WHO

• World malaria report 2013

  This 2013 edition of the annual WHO report on malaria summarizes information received from malaria-endemic countries and updates the analyses presented in the 2012. It highlights the progress made towards global malaria targets set for 2015, and describes current challenges for global malaria control and elimination.

  • 01/12/2013

  • World Health Organization
  • • Malaria
    • Health Effects
    • Vector Borne Diseases
    • Vector Control
    • Epidemics
    • Vaccination
    • India
    • Global
    • Drugs

• Guideline: updates on the management of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children

  WHO has released these new treatment guidelines for almost 20 million children under-five worldwide who have severe acute malnutrition. Read text of these guidelines.

  • 27/11/2013

  • World Health Organization
  • • Malnutrition
    • Children
    • Infants
    • Child Health
    • India
    • Global
    • WHO
    • Health Effects

• WHO guidance to protect health from climate change through health adaptation planning

  The WHO has released a document on guidance to protect health from climate change through health adaptation planning to support the integration of health adaptation planning in national adaptation plans

  • 19/11/2013

  • World Health Organization
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Health
    • WHO
    • Environment
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Extreme Weather Events
    • Health Effects
    • Climate Impacts

• Global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013-2020

  Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – mainly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes – are the biggest cause of death worldwide. More than 36 million die annually from NCDs

  • 13/11/2013

  • World Health Organization
  • • Non Communicable Diseases
    • Cancer
    • Heart Diseases
    • Respiratory Diseases
    • Diabetes
    • Health Effects
    • Developing Countries
    • Global

• Global tuberculosis report 2013

  China, India and the Russian Federation have the highest burden of MDR-TB followed by 24 other countries says this 18th edition of the global report on tuberculosis released by WHO at Geneva.

  • 23/10/2013

  • World Health Organization
  • • Tuberculosis
    • Health Effects
    • Diseases
    • Epidemics
    • India
    • Global
    • Drugs
    • Children
    • Statistics