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Establishing a national programme for guideline adaptation: key steps and functions

9789292741761-engEstablishing a national programme for guideline adaptation: key steps and functions

WHO defines guidelines as systematically developed statements that recommend a particular course of clinical, public health or health system action, often for professionals and citizens, sometimes for organizations and governments. The importance of clinical practice and public health guidelines in transforming knowledge into action during public health functions, health care delivery and clinical practice is paramount. Guidelines cover a wide range of public health, health system and clinical topics and are developed using processes and methods to ensure they are of high-quality and contain credible recommendations. Guideline recommendations help the users to make informed decisions, based on the best available evidence, on whether to undertake specific interventions, clinical tests or public health measures, and on where and when to do so

Strategic action framework to strengthen road safety systems in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

9789292742027-engStrategic 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

9789292741822-engThe 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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