World Health Organization: New WHO AI tool invites people to counter online promotion of unhealthy products. “WHO/Europe is calling upon consumers to become a part of a project aimed at creating a healthier society. You can contribute to the training of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that will help countries across the WHO European Region to effectively monitor and regulate the promotion of harmful products that are mainly targeted at children: from tobacco and alcohol to foods high in salt, trans fats and sugars.”
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World Health Organization: WHO releases data.who.int
World Health Organization: WHO releases data.who.int. “Data.who.int provides open access to WHO’s health data through a harmonized, consolidated and seamless experience. Starting with the data underlying WHO’s annual World Health Statistics report, the new website reimagines the indicator page – the most representative level of data presentation – with consistent, expressive and accessible visualization, while also presenting metadata to promote ease of accessibility, reference and use.”
World Health Organization Europe: Physical activity in the EU: policies that make people happier
World Health Organization Europe: Physical activity in the EU: policies that make people happier. “WHO/Europe has created a new database in its European Health Information Gateway that shows what WHO-recommended policies have been implemented in the EU. Overall, there are 23 policy indicators for countries in the database, ranging from physical activity promotion policies for vulnerable social groups, through awareness campaigns, to funding.”
World Health Organization: Launch of the Health Inequality Data Repository
World Health Organization: Launch of the Health Inequality Data Repository. “The Health Inequality Data Repository is the largest global collection of disaggregated data about health and determinants of health – with nearly 11 million data points across more than 2000 indicators. These data can be explored directly through the Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT), an interactive software which facilitates the examination of inequalities and the evaluation of relevant interventions to address them.”
World Health Organization Europe: New mobile friendly web tool with interactive dashboard gives individuals the information they need on monkeypox in advance of attending gatherings
World Health Organization: New mobile friendly web tool with interactive dashboard gives individuals the information they need on monkeypox in advance of attending gatherings. “WHO/Europe has launched a new tool that will offer convenient access to monkeypox information for people planning to attend large gatherings, events or parties. The tool provides an up-to-date assessment of the in-country situation, links to the websites of local health authorities, advice on available preventive measures, as well as links to WHO guidance. It is part of a comprehensive monkeypox resource toolkit with ready-to-use and customizable tools to support national authorities and event organizers in their planning and coordination of mass and large gathering events.”
World Health Organization: WHO launches new Mortality Database visualization portal
World Health Organization: WHO launches new Mortality Database visualization portal. “Since its founding in 1948, WHO has required all Member States to report mortality data and collected this information in the WHO Mortality Database. Today, this unique database is the oldest and largest of its kind, containing data from over 120 countries and areas by cause, year, sex, and age. The portal is a significant step towards ensuring mortality data is used to drive impact in countries. Among other features, users can now filter and compare information by disease category or age group. They can also use interactive visualizations to view the data by number of deaths, death rates per 100 000, or as a percentage of total deaths.”
Globe and Mail: Nearly 15 million died in first two years of COVID-19 pandemic, new WHO study finds
Globe and Mail: Nearly 15 million died in first two years of COVID-19 pandemic, new WHO study finds. “The first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic has killed nearly 15 million people around the world, a new detailed estimate from the World Health Organization has found. The latest estimate, focusing on direct and indirect mortality caused by the pandemic, is nearly triple the official count of 5.4 million deaths in the same period. Global deaths since January were not included in the study.”
World Health Organization: New GLAAS data portal online
World Health Organization: New GLAAS data portal online. “The UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) data portal is now online… The portal features GLAAS data from the past three GLAAS cycles (2013/2014, 2016/2017, 2018/2019) on governance, finance, monitoring and human resources. On the portal, users can explore and download data, analyze trends, and make country and regional comparisons.”
The World Health Organization’s Disease Outbreak News: a retrospective database (MedRxiv)
medRxiv: The World Health Organization’s Disease Outbreak News: a retrospective database. “The World Health Organization (WHO) notifies the global community about disease outbreaks through the Disease Outbreak News (DON). These online reports tell important stories about both outbreaks themselves and the high-level decision making that governs information sharing during public health emergencies. However, they have been used only minimally in global health scholarship to date. Here, we collate all 2,789 of these reports from their first use through the start of the Covid-19 pandemic (January 1996 to December 2019), and develop an annotated database of the subjective and often inconsistent information they contain.”
WHO: COVID-19 cases rise for 2nd straight week, deaths fall (Associated Press)
Associated Press: WHO: COVID-19 cases rise for 2nd straight week, deaths fall. “The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases globally increased by 7% in the last week, driven by rising infections in the Western Pacific.”
WHO Global Health Facilities Database: Ensuring access to primary healthcare and UHC (World Health Organization)
World Health Organization: WHO Global Health Facilities Database: Ensuring access to primary healthcare and UHC. “The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed urgent gaps in countries’ current ability to locate health facilities, impeding progress to provide equitable access to therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccinations through the ACT-Accelerator and other initiatives. As a standardized and open access repository of health facility information, the database will provide critical insights to deliver primary health care, especially during emergencies. It will also leverage the power of geospatial data to map health facilities in relation to communities and help bridge long-standing inequalities in access and use.”
Associated Press: WHO says COVID boosters needed, reversing previous call
Associated Press: WHO says COVID boosters needed, reversing previous call. “An expert group convened by the World Health Organization said Tuesday it ‘strongly supports urgent and broad access’ to booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine amid the global spread of omicron, capping a reversal of the U.N. agency’s repeated insistence last year that boosters weren’t necessary for healthy people and contributed to vaccine inequity.”
Nature: South African scientists copy Moderna’s COVID vaccine
Nature: South African scientists copy Moderna’s COVID vaccine. “The company, Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, in Cape Town, has made only microlitres of the vaccine, based on data that Moderna used to make its shot. But the achievement is a milestone for a major initiative launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) — a technology transfer hub meant to build capacity for vaccine manufacturing in low- and middle-income countries.”
BBC: Europe entering Covid pandemic ‘ceasefire’, says WHO
BBC: Europe entering Covid pandemic ‘ceasefire’, says WHO. “The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Europe director says the continent could soon enter a ‘long period of tranquillity’ in the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Hans Kluge cited high vaccination rates, the end of winter and the less severe nature of the Omicron variant.”
MedicalNewsToday: WHO strongly recommends arthritis drug for severe COVID-19
MedicalNewsToday: WHO strongly recommends arthritis drug for severe COVID-19. “The WHO has strongly recommended that doctors use an arthritis drug called baricitinib to treat people with severe or critical COVID-19. The drug belongs to a class of medications known as Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors, which block the activity of immune signaling molecules called cytokines.”