World Health Organization Links |
| WHO homepage |
World Health Organization homepage |
| WHOSIS |
WHO Statistical Information System: Health and health-related statistical information from the WHO Global
Programme on Evidence for Health Policy |
| WHO publications |
World Health Organization
Publications catalogue |
| WHO Bulletin |
The International Journal of Public
Health. "... The Bulletin in its new form will be open to every perspective that can
increase our understanding of health problems and how to solve them. In this way it will
reflect our decision to make WHO not only a participant but a leader in the current
fast-moving interactive process of global change..." Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland,
Director-General, WHO |
| World Health Report |
Full text of the World Health Report
2001, Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope. Includes archives to full-text of past
World Health Reports. |
| WHO-EIP |
The Evidence for Health Policy
site presents current activities relating to epidemiology and the burden of disease,
cost-effectiveness of health care interventions, and health systems assessment and reform,
including quality of care, ethical issues, financing, resource allocation, regulation and
legislation. |
| WHO Macro Economic Commission |
Commission on Macroeconomics and
Health. A WHO commission examining the interrelations among investments in health,
economic growth, and poverty reduction. |
| WHO-CHOICE |
Methods and tools to ensure rigour
and standardization in producing the evidence policy makers need to decide which
interventions should be given priority in the allocation of scarce health resources. It
provides evidence on the economic impact of major diseases and risk factors, the
effectiveness, quality of care and costs of interventions, and the optimal mix of
interventions. |
| WHO/OSD |
WHO Department of Organization of
Health Services Provision. Our mission is to support an environment in which WHO Member
States strengthen the scientific and ethical foundation of health policies and strategies
and improve the performance of their health systems functions so that they respond better
to the needs of their citizens by promoting equity, quality, efficiency and the active
involvement of civil society. |
| WHO/GPE
Discussion papers |
WHO Global Programme of Evidence for
Policy Discussion Paper Series |
| WHO Regional Office Resources |
| AFRO
Country Profiles |
Country Health Profiles from the
World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa (AFRO). |
| EMRO Country Profiles |
Country profiles from the World
Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO). Demographic,
sociodemographic, budgetary resources, human and material resources, primary health care
coverage, health status, and selected morbidity indicators as well as contact information. |
| EURO Evidence |
Country profiles, European Health
Report, links to headquarters. |
| PAHO Country
Profiles |
Country profiles from the World
Health Organization, Regional Office for the Americas (PAHO/AMRO) |
| SEARO CHS |
SEARO Department of Health Systems
and Community Health |
| SEAR Health
1994-97 |
Health Situation
in the South-East Asia Region, 1994-1997. From SEARO, inter-country comparative health
situations, country reported data for basic health and health-related indicators, and
regional data. |
| WPRO Country
Information |
Country Health Profiles from the
World Health Organization, Western Pacific Region (WPRO) |
Other links of
interest |
| AHPSR |
Alliance for health policy and
systems research. An
initiative of the Global Forum for Health Research with the collaboration of the WHO. The
aim of the Alliance is to contribute to health development and the efficiency and equity
of health systems through research on and for policy, with the objectives to:
- promote capacity for health policy and
systems research (HPSR) on national and international issues
- help develop the information for policy
decisions in the health sector and other sectors influencing health
- stimulate the generation of knowledge
which facilitates policy analysis and improves understanding of health systems and policy
process
- strengthen international research
collaboration, information exchange and shared learning among countries
- identify influences on health systems
which operate at the global level and promote appropriate research.
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| DFID HSRC |
The DFID HSRC provides technical
assistance and information to the British Government's Department for International
Development and its partners in support of pro-poor health policies, financing, systems
strengthening and services. They maintain a page devoted to the WHR 2000 and
surrounding discussions. |
| European
Observatory on Health Care Systems |
The European Observatory on Health
Care Systems supports and promotes evidence-based health policy-making through
comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the dynamics of health care systems in Europe. |
| FIOCRUZ |
The Health Information Department of
the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation created this site to stimulate the scientific debate around
health systems performance assessment issue through the exchange of published and
unpublished documents which could be used to further discuss the WHO proposal. |
| LAC Health Accounts |
This website, jointly sponsored by the World Bank, IADB, USAID, and PAHO, is
designed to provide users with up-to-date information about how to collect, analyse and
interpret information about public and private spending on health services in Latin
America and the Caribbean. |
| LACHSR |
The Latin America and Caribbean
Regional Health Sector Reform Initiative. Partners in the initiative are: USAID, PAHO,
Partnerships for Health Reform, Family Planning Management Development, Data for Decision
Making (DDM) at the Harvard School of Public Health. |
