Executive summary 2020 will go down in history as the year when the global community was
awakened to the fragility of human health and the interdependence of the ecosystem …

Executive summary The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the need for well-functioning
primary health care (PHC) into sharp focus. PHC is the best platform for providing basic …

Background Human resources for health (HRH) include a range of occupations that aim to
promote or improve human health. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the …

Background Global development goals increasingly rely on country-specific estimates for
benchmarking a nation's progress. To meet this need, the Global Burden of Diseases …

In agonising, crippling pain from lung cancer, Mr S came to the palliative care service in
Calicut, Kerala, from an adjoining district a couple of hours away by bus. His body language …

Globally, cancer is the second leading cause of death, with numbers greatly exceeding
those for human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome …

Several global efforts are underway to develop COVID-19 vaccines, and interim analyses
from phase 3 clinical testing have been announced by nine organisations: Pfizer, the …

Thailand's health development since the 1970s has been focused on investment in the
health delivery infrastructure at the district level and below and on training the health …

In addition to developing essential packages some DCP3 volumes identify one or more
“augmented” packages that delineate next steps after the essential interventions are …

Classifying antibiotics in the WHO Essential Medicines List for optimal use—be AWaRe - The
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