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The first-ever WHO Report on Patient Safety, the "Global Patient Safety Report 2024", offers a comprehensive overview of patient safety implementation worldwide. Aligned with the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030, this report explores policies, strategies, and initiatives shaping safety in health care. From analyses of country actions to in-depth summaries of burden of unsafe care, it provides crucial insights for policy-makers, health care leaders, researchers, and patient safety advocates. Explore how nations address challenges, learn from case studies and feature stories, and gain deeper understanding in priority areas for action. This report serves as a vital resource for fos...
Patient harm due to unsafe care is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide and most of this harm is avoidable. Harm due to medicines and therapeutic options accounts for nearly 50% of preventable harm in medical care. The main objective of this policy brief is to support successful implementation of the third WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm, and to advocate for prioritizing medication safety in health care. It will also support implementation of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030, on policies relating to eliminating avoidable harm in health care and ensuring the safety of clinical processes. Solutions that can be implemented in countries ar...
This report summarizes the lessons learned from several countries in developing and implementing national programmes for occupational health for health workers. The report is based on an online workshop held on 15 July 2020. It is intended for public health policy makers, occupational health and other experts and key stakeholders at the national level who are interested in protecting health and safety of health workers.
This report provides a refined set of actionable indicators that can be used by countries to monitor and assess the development of palliative care. The indicators have been identified on the basis of their relevance and feasibility by experts from across the globe. The indicators are applicable to all settings including countries in the very early stages of palliative care development. The target audience of this report includes policy-makers, palliative care programme managers and health-care workers. The closing section of the report is dedicated to detailed support to country stakeholders on the selection and implementation of palliative care indicators at national or sub-national levels.
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People made more than 800 million international journeys in 2006. This amount of global travel exposes many people to changes in altitude humidity disease agents and temperature - all of which can lead to ill-health. Many health risks can be minimized by precautions taken before during and after travel. This book explains how travellers can stay healthy and provides WHO guidance on vaccinations malaria chemoprophylaxis and treatment protection against insects and other disease vectors and safety in different environmental settings. This new edition provides information on all the main health risks to which travellers can be exposed during the journey and at the destination. The relevant infe...