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Progress on the health-related Sustainable Development Goals and targets in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2023: 2nd progress report
Progress on the health-related Sustainable Development Goals and targets in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2023: 2nd progress report
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes a vision of healthy lives and well-being for all at all ages. This major report provides an update on progress towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region. It presents regional trends between 2010 and 2022 for 50 health-related SDG indicators using available data from WHO and estimates from other United Nations agencies. The report reveals some successes at the country level amid a marked slowdown regionally with setbacks across indicators on health health risks and determinants and access to services. We are at the halfway point for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: to reverse current trends and ensure the health and well-being of our population we must take bold steps now.
Strategic action framework to strengthen road safety systems in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Strategic action framework to strengthen road safety systems in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
This strategic action framework to strengthen road safety systems in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region was developed with the vision of having a region free of road traffic fatalities and serious injuries, where no one dies or is injured while using a sustainable road transportation system. The framework is intended to support Member States in their efforts to implement United Nations General Assembly resolution A/74/L.86 on improving global road safety, which declared a Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030 with an ambitious target to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries by at least 50% by its end. The resolution also “Requests the World Health Organization and the United Nations regional commissions, as well as other relevant United Nations agencies, to continue the activities aimed at supporting the implementation of the road safety-related targets in the 2030 Agenda, while ensuring system-wide coherence”. A global plan based on the Safe System approach was thus developed by WHO and the United Nations regional commissions in cooperation with partners in the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration and other stakeholders and launched in October 2021 as a generic guide for implementation of the Decade of Action.
The role of the private health sector in COVID-19 response
The role of the private health sector in COVID-19 response
COVID-19 presents extraordinary challenges to health systems around the globe, requiring the cooperation of all health actors at every level. In the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), the private health sector is responsible for 53% of inpatient services and 66% of outpatient services and is, therefore, a major stakeholder in the COVID-19 response.
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Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region
For indexing, abstracting, archiving and sharing regional health knowledge, including citations from more than 800 peer-reviewed journals published in 20 countries
IMEMR Journals Directory (IMJD)
IMEMR Journals Directory (IMJD)
Index Medicus Journals Directory (IMJD) is a comprehensive repository for the bibliographic information on peer-reviewed health and biomedical sciences journals published in the Region and indexed in the Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (IMEMR).
Institutional Digital Repository (IDR)
The Institutional Digital Repository (IDR)
The Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) of the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean was launched in October 2011 in order to improve accessibility to documents of WHO governing bodies, the annual reports and message of the Regional Director, technical and intercountry meeting reports.
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Arabic MeSH
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Research4life
Research4life
Access to academic and professional peer-reviewed online content for developing countries
Global Health Library (Global Index Medicus)
Global Index Medicus (GIM)
International platform to promote and link mainstream, regional, national and local health information
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