Anaemia/iron deficiency list of publications

The documents and articles listed below can be accessed, downloaded, or ordered from the WHO bookshop.

• Worldwide prevalence of anaemia 1993-2005 (2008)
  WHO Global Database on Anaemia
• Assessing the iron status of populations (2007)
  Second edition, including Literature Reviews
• Iron deficiency anaemia: assessment, prevention and control (2001)
  A guide for programme managers
• Guidelines for the use of iron supplements to prevent and treat iron deficiency anemia (1998)
  International Nutritional Anemia Consultative Group (INACG), World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF)
• Preventing and controlling iron deficiency anaemia through primary health care (1989)
  A guide for health administrators and programme managers
• Control of nutritional anaemia with special reference to iron deficiency (1975)
  Report of an IAEA/USAID/WHO joint meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 28 October to 1 November 1974
• Anaemia/iron deficiency: Report of a study group (1959)
  Geneva, Switzerland, 29 September to 4 October 1958

Statements

• Weekly Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) in women of reproductive age: its role in promoting optimal maternal and child health (2009)
• Iron supplementation of young children in regions where malaria transmission is intense and infectious disease highly prevalent (2006)
  pdf, 295kb
• Focusing on anaemia: towards an integrated approach for effective anaemia control (2004)

Regional publications

EMRO

• Guidelines for the control of iron deficiency in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa (1996)

EURO

• Prevention and control of iron-deficiency anaemia in women and children (2001)
  Report of the UNICEF/WHO regional consultation, Geneva, Switzerland, 3-5 February 1999
• Complementary feeding and the control of iron deficiency anaemia in the Newly Independent States (2000)
  Presentation by WHO at a WHO/UNICEF consultation, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 February 1999

SEARO

• Control of iron deficiency anaemia in South-East Asia (1996)
  Report of an intercountry workshop, Salaya, Thailand, 11-14 December 1995
• Situational analysis of iron deficiency anaemia in South-East Asian countries: a regional overview (1996)
  Report prepared for an intercountry workshop, Salaya, Thailand, 11-15 December 1995