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International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: Icf (Large Print Format for the Visually Impaired)
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Health Organization World Health Organization
***THIS IS THE LARGE PRINT VERSION OF ICF FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED*** The International Classification of Functioning (ICF) is a classification of health and health-related domains that provides a standard language for describing how people live with their health condition. It covers body functions and structures, activities and participation, ...
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International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health
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Health Organization World, Who
This publication describes how people live with their health condition. It is a classification of health-related domains that describe body functions and structures, activities and participation. The domains are classified from body, individual and societal perspectives. Since an individual's functioning and disability occurs in a context, "ICF" ...
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Toxicological Evaluation of Certain Food Additives
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World Health Organization, Program On Chemical Safety International Program on Chemical Safety, Pro International Pro
This volume in the WHO Food Additives Series contains monographs prepared by the 31st Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, which met in Geneva in 1987. The monographs examine four groups of substances: enzyme preparations; smoke flavorings; food colors (beet red, canthaxanthin, carbon black, citranaxanthin); and glutamic acid and its ...
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International Travel and Health 2009: Situation as on 1 January 2009
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World Health Organization
More than 900 million international journeys were undertaken in 2008. This amount of global travel exposes many people to changes in altitude, humidity, disease agents and temperatureall 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 travelers can ...
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Multiaxial Presentation of the ICD-10 for Use in Adult Psychiatry
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World Health Organization, Who, A Janca (Editor)
A simple and easy to use triaxial recording system intended for use in clinical, educational and research activities which aims to ensure that disabilities and factors relevant to the management of a mentally ill patient's condition are systematically recorded. It has been prepared and trialled by an international team of experts and has proven ...
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The World Health Report 2002: Reducing Risks to Health, Promoting Healthy Life
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Health Organization World, Who
"The World Health Report 2002" measures the amount of disease, disability and death in the world today that can be attributed to some of the most important risks to human health. Even more importantly, it calculates how much of this present burden could be avoided in following decades. The text represents one of the largest research projects ever ...
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Some Chemicals Used in Plastics and Elastomers
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Iarc, International Agency for Research On Cancer, Health Organization World Health Organization (Producer)
Evaluates the carcinogenic risk to humans posed by chemicals used in plastics and elastomers.
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Guidelines on Studies in Environmental Epidemiology: Environmental Health Criteria Series No.27
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ILO, Unep, Health Organization World Health Organization (Producer)
Guidelines on studies in environmental epidemiology. These guidelines are published under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Labour Organization, and the World Health Organization.
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The World Health Report: Primary Health Care Now More Than Ever
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World Health Organization (Creator)
As nations seek to strengthen their health systems, they are increasingly looking to primary health care (PHC) to provide a clear and comprehensive sense of direction. "The World Health Report 2008" analyzes how primary health care reforms, that embody the principles of universal access, equity and social justice, are an essential response to the ...
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Multiaxial Classification of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders: The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders in Children and Adolescents
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Health Organization World Health Organization, Who, Michael J Rutter (Introduction by)
Diagnosis within psychiatry involves the consideration of a number of different features of mental state. In making a diagnosis, individual psychiatrists inevitably accord differing importance to certain features. By regulating the order and number of conditions to be recorded, a multiaxial framework provides for internationally comparable ...
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Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters
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B Wisner, J Adams, World Health Organization
This volume distills what is known about environmental health during an emergency or disaster. It draws on results from the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, and on experience with sustainable development between the two Earth Summits, in Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg. It is intended for practitioners, as well as for policy ...
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The Global Burden of Disease: 2004 Update
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World Health Organization (Creator)
This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the health of the world's population in 2004. Consistent and comparative description of the burden of diseases and injuries is an important input to health decision-making and planning processes. "The Global Burden of Disease" provides a framework for integrating the available information on ...
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Who Guide to Mental and Neurological Health in Primary Care: A Guide to Mental and Neurological Ill Health in Adults, Adolwscents and Children
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World Health Organization, Who
The second edition of this book has been completely updated to include information on paediatric and adolescent psychiatric problems, including topics such as ADHD. In addition, there is new material on common neurological problems, headache, stroke and epilepsy. Concise and user-friendly, this book contains essential information for General ...
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A Practical Handbook on the Pharmacovigilance of Antimalarial Medicines
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Who, World Health Organization (Who), World Health Organization
"The Handbook" is a detailed manual giving a step by step approach to undertaking the pharmacovigilance of
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Occupational Exposures to Mists and Vapours from Strong Inorganic Acids; And Other Industrial Chemicals
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Iarc, World Health Organization
Evaluates occupational exposures to mists and vapours from strong inorganic acids: and other industrial chemicals.
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Rapid Health Assessment Protocols for Emergencies
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World Health Organization, Who
This book provides a collection of ten protocols for conducting rapid health assessments in the immediate aftermath of different types of emergencies. Noting the vital importance of rapid and accurate information in the earliest stage of an emergency, the protocols respond to the urgent need for common standardized technical tools for assessing ...
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Calcium and Magnesium in Drinking Water Public Health Significance
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World Health Organization
Can calcium and magnesium ('hardness') in drinking water contribute to preventing disease? This book documents the outputs of an unprecedented group of experts assembled by the World Health Organization to address this question. It includes their comprehensive consensus view on what is known and what is not about the role and possible health ...
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Naloxone, Flumazenil and Dantrolene as Antidotes
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Meredith, World Health Organization, Commission of the European Communities, International Programme on Chemical Safety
The first volume provides an introduction to the series and reviews three antidotes: naloxone, a specific opioid antagonist used in the treatment of opiate poisoning; flumazenil, used to reverse the sedative, anti-convulsant and muscle-relaxant effects of benzodiazepines; and dantrolene sodium, used in the treatment of malignant hyperpyrexia and ...
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International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: Children & Youth Version
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World Health Organization (Creator)
The "International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health for Children and Youth (ICF-CY)" is a derived version of the "International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health" (ICF WHO 2001) designed to record charact
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Obesity: Preventing and Managing the Global Epidemic
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World Health Organization
This report issues a call for urgent action to combat the growing epidemic of obesity, which now affects developing and industrialized countries alike. Adopting a public health approach, the report responds to both the enormity of health problems associated with obesity and the notorious difficulty of treating this complex, multifactorial disease. ...
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Counselling for Maternal and Newborn Health Care - A Handbook for Building Skills
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Who, World Health Organization
This fourth edition of the anthrax guidelines encompasses a systematic review of the extensive new scientific literature and relevant publications up to end 2007 including all the new information that emerged in the 34 years after the anthrax letter events.
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Who Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008: The Mpower Package
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World Health Organization (Creator)
WHO has produced a first comprehensive analysis of global tobacco use and control: The WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008. The report confirms that the global tobacco epidemic is one of the greatest public health threats of modern times that
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Who Monographs on Selected Medical Plants, Vol 1
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Who, World Health Organization
A collection of 28 monographs covering the quality control and traditional and clinical uses of selected medicinal plants. Plants were selected for inclusion on the basis of their widespread use, particularly in countries that rely heavily on medicinal plants to meet primary health care needs. Monographs are provided for a number of phytomedicines ...
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ICD-10 International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Edition: Volume 2: Instruction Manual
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Who, World Health Organization
This second volume consolidates notes on certification and classification formerly included in "Volume 1", supplemented by new background information, instructions, and guidelines for users of the tabular list. Detailed explanations of the tabulations are complemented by extensive practical advice on their use. Historical information about the ...
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New approaches to the identification of microorganisms.
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Carl-Göran Hedén, Tibor Illéni, Unesco, World Health Organization, International Organization for Biotechnology and Bioengineering
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