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• 20 Years of ICF—International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: Uses and Applications around the World  Academic Article
• A Call to Action: An IWG Charter for a Public Health Approach to Dying, Death, and Loss  Academic Article
• A Practical Approach to the Management of Cancer Patients During the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: An International Collaborative Group  Academic Article
• A WHO report: framework for action on interprofessional education and collaborative practice.  Academic Article
• A challenge-response endoscopic sinus surgery specific checklist as an add-on to standard surgical checklist: an evaluation of potential safety and quality improvement issues  Academic Article
• A comparative analysis of disability in individuals with bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia in a sub-Saharan African mental health hospital: towards evidence-guided rehabilitation intervention  Academic Article
• A conceptual model for interprofessional education: The international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF)  Academic Article
• A critical appraisal of guidelines used for management of severe acute malnutrition in South Africa’s referral system  Academic Article
• A formulary for pediatric oncology in developing countries  Academic Article
• A future for the world's children? A WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission  Academic Article
• A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19  Academic Article
• A living WHO guideline on drugs to prevent covid-19  Academic Article
• A number of factors explain why WHO guideline developers make strong recommendations inconsistent with GRADE guidance  Academic Article
• A randomized controlled trial comparing standard- and low-dose strategies for transfusion of platelets (SToP) to patients with thrombocytopenia  Academic Article
• A review of patient-reported outcomes for children and adolescents with obesity  Academic Article
• A review of the two major regulatory pathways for non-proprietary low-molecular-weight heparins  Academic Article
• A taxonomy and framework for identifying and developing actionable statements in guidelines suggests avoiding informal recommendations  Academic Article
• A very low number of national adaptations of the World Health Organization guidelines for HIV and tuberculosis reported their processes  Academic Article
• Adjudicating bleeding events in a platelet dose study: impact on outcome results and challenges  Academic Article
• Age-sex specific pulmonary embolism-related mortality in the USA and Canada, 2000–18: an analysis of the WHO Mortality Database and of the CDC Multiple Cause of Death database  Academic Article
• Agranular CD4+/CD56+ Hematodermic Neoplasm: A Distinct Entity Described in the Recent World Health Organization–European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Classification for Cutaneous Lymphomas  Academic Article
• Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) 2008*  Academic Article
• Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA): Achievements in 10 years and future needs  Academic Article
• An Evidence-Based Response to Intimate Partner Violence  Academic Article
• An International Clinical Study of Ability and Disability in Autism Spectrum Disorder Using the WHO-ICF Framework  Academic Article
• An evaluation of WHA resolution 45.5: health human resource implications.  Academic Article
• An evaluation of breastfeeding promotion literature: does it really promote breastfeeding?  Academic Article
• An international qualitative study of functioning in autism spectrum disorder using the World Health Organization international classification of functioning, disability and health framework  Academic Article
• Artificial intelligence in health care: laying the Foundation for Responsible, sustainable, and inclusive innovation in low- and middle-income countries  Academic Article
• Assessing 15 Proposals for Promoting Innovation and Access to Medicines Globally  Academic Article
• Assessing country-level efforts to link research to action  Academic Article
• Assessing implementation mechanisms for an international agreement on research and development for health products  Academic Article
• Assessing quality of newborn care at district facilities in Malawi  Academic Article
• Assessing the quality of evidence in studies estimating prevalence of exposure to occupational risk factors: The QoE-SPEO approach applied in the systematic reviews from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury  Academic Article
• Assessment of disability  Academic Article
• Assessor burden, inter-rater agreement and user experience of the RoB-SPEO tool for assessing risk of bias in studies estimating prevalence of exposure to occupational risk factors: An analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury  Academic Article
• Barriers to implementing WHO's exclusive breastfeeding policy for women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: an exploration of ideas, interests and institutions  Academic Article
• Breast-feeding policies and practices in Canadian hospitals providing maternity care.  Academic Article
• Breastfeeding Policies and Practices in Canadian Hospitals: Comparing 1993 with 2007  Academic Article
• Breastfeeding Rates and Hospital Breastfeeding Practices in Canada: A National Survey of Women  Academic Article
• Building a bright, evidence-informed future: a conversation starter from the incoming editors  Academic Article
• Building the evidence base for global tobacco control.  Academic Article
• COVID-19 boosters in rich nations will delay vaccines for all  Academic Article
• Can the surgical checklist reduce the risk of wrong site surgery in orthopaedics? - can the checklist help? Supporting evidence from analysis of a national patient incident reporting system  Academic Article
• Cerebral palsy and developmental intellectual disability in children younger than 5 years: Findings from the GBD-WHO Rehabilitation Database 2019  Academic Article
• Cervical Adenocarcinoma: A Comparison of the Reproducibility of the World Health Organization 2003 and 2014 Classifications  Academic Article
• Changes in dietary intake and food sources of saturated and cis and trans unsaturated fatty acids in Costa Rican adolescents: 1996 versus 2006  Academic Article
• Chronic Health Conditions: Changing Prevalence in an Aging Population and Some Implications for the Delivery of Health Care Services  Academic Article
• Classification of Functioning and Impairment: The Development of ICF Core Sets for Autism Spectrum Disorder  Academic Article
• Clinical correlates of quality of life in systemic sclerosis measured with the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II  Academic Article
• Collaborative practice in a global health context: Common themes from developed and developing countries  Academic Article
• Comparison of antibiotics included in national essential medicines lists of 138 countries using the WHO Access, Watch, Reserve (AWaRe) classification: a cross-sectional study  Academic Article
• Conceptual and institutional gaps: understanding how the WHO can become a more effective cross-sectoral collaborator  Academic Article
• Construction of a FRAX® model for the assessment of fracture probability in Canada and implications for treatment  Academic Article
• Critical comments on the WHO-UNEP State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals – 2012  Academic Article
• Cross-country analysis of strategies for achieving progress towards global goals for women’s and children’s health  Academic Article
• Current status and future prospects of epidemiology and public health training and research in the WHO African region  Academic Article
• Dark sides of the proposed Framework Convention on Global Health's many virtues: A systematic review and critical analysis.  Academic Article
• Developing a workbook to support the contextualisation of global health systems guidance: a case study identifying steps and critical factors for success in this process at WHO  Academic Article
• Development of rapid guidelines: 2. A qualitative study with WHO guideline developers  Academic Article
• Development of rapid guidelines: 3. GIN-McMaster Guideline Development Checklist extension for rapid recommendations  Academic Article
• Diagnostic Strategies to Detect Glucose Intolerance in a Multiethnic Population  Academic Article
• Diagnostic criteria and classification of hyperglycaemia first detected in pregnancy: A World Health Organization Guideline  Academic Article
• Differences in growth of Canadian children compared to the WHO 2006 Child Growth Standards  Academic Article
• Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak  Academic Article
• Drug-resistant tuberculosis: an insurmountable epidemic?  Academic Article
• Ebola Again Shows the International Health Regulations Are Broken  Academic Article
• Ebola Virus in West Africa: Waiting for the Owl of Minerva  Academic Article
• Effective interventions and strategies for improving early child development  Academic Article
• Embed Multisectoral Governance Mechanisms in the Pandemic Instrument for One Health Action  Academic Article
• Emerging norms for the control of emerging epidemics  Academic Article
• Empirical impact evaluation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel in Australia, Canada, UK and USA  Academic Article
• Empirically evaluating the WHO global code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel’s impact on four high-income countries four years after adoption  Academic Article
• Essential medicines for cancer: WHO recommendations and national priorities  Academic Article
• Essential psychiatric medicines: wrong selection, high consumption and social problems  Academic Article
• Ethics review of COVID-19 human challenge studies: A joint HRA/WHO workshop  Conference Paper
• Evaluation and Use of Epidemiological Evidence for Environmental Health Risk Assessment: WHO Guideline Document  Academic Article
• Examining policy cohesion for cervical cancer worldwide: analysis of WHO country reports  Academic Article
• FRAX Predicts Fracture Risk in Kidney Transplant Recipients  Academic Article
• Feasibility of the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS-II) in Epidemiological Surveys and Comparability with Standard World Health Organization Criteria  Academic Article
• Fracture prediction and calibration of a Canadian FRAX® tool: a population-based report from CaMos  Academic Article
• Framework convention on tobacco control: progress and implications for health and the environment.  Academic Article
• Functional Limitations and Disability in Persons Living with HIV in South Africa and United States: Similarities and Differences  Academic Article
• Functioning and disability in autism spectrum disorder: A worldwide survey of experts  Academic Article
• GRADE: Von der Evidenz zur Empfehlung.  Academic Article
• Generic patient-reported outcomes in child health research: a review of conceptual content using World Health Organization definitions  Academic Article
• Gestational diabetes and pregnancy outcomes - a systematic review of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Association of Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG) diagnostic criteria  Academic Article
• Global Cardiovascular Research Training for Implementation Science, Health Systems Research, and Health Policy Research  Academic Article
• Global status of essential medicine selection: a systematic comparison of national essential medicine lists with recommendations by WHO  Academic Article
• Globalization and risks to health  Academic Article
• Growth and body composition trajectories in infants meeting the WHO growth standards study requirements  Academic Article
• Guidance for the Evaluation of Tuberculosis Diagnostics That Meet the World Health Organization (WHO) Target Product Profiles: An Introduction to WHO Process and Study Design Principles  Academic Article
• Haemophilia in the 1990s: Report of a Joint Meeting of the World Health Organization and World Federation of Hemophilia  Academic Article
• Health Outcomes Categorized by Current and Previous Definitions of Acute Myocardial Infarction in an Unselected Cohort of Troponin-Naïve Emergency Department Patients  Academic Article
• Health in the UK: Public Health's contribution to the future  Academic Article
• Health policy and system support to optimise community health worker programmes: an abridged WHO guideline  Academic Article
• Health status and QOL instruments used in childhood cancer research: deciphering conceptual content using World Health Organization definitions  Academic Article
• High Blood Pressure Selected as the Theme for World Health Day, April 7, 2013: Cup Half Full or Half Empty?  Academic Article
• Hypertension Pharmacological Treatment in Adults: A World Health Organization Guideline Executive Summary  Academic Article
• Identification and management of Shigella infection in children with diarrhoea: a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Impact of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control on global cigarette consumption: quasi-experimental evaluations using interrupted time series analysis and in-sample forecast event modelling  Academic Article
• Impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes--WHO criteria.  Academic Article
• Implementation of 100% smoke-free law in Uganda: a qualitative study exploring civil society’s perspective  Academic Article
• Implementation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and surgical swab and instrument counts at a regional referral hospital in Uganda – a quality improvement project  Academic Article
• Improving antiretroviral therapy adherence in resource-limited settings at scale: a discussion of interventions and recommendations.  Academic Article
• Influenza epidemiology and immunization during pregnancy: Final report of a World Health Organization working group  Academic Article
• Integrated care pathways for airway diseases (AIRWAYS-ICPs)  Academic Article
• Interventions to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and network meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Key criteria for the ethical acceptability of COVID-19 human challenge studies: Report of a WHO Working Group  Academic Article
• Knowledge and potential impact of the WHO Global code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel: Does it matter for source and destination country stakeholders?  Academic Article
• Latin American and Caribbean countries’ baseline clinical and policy guidelines for responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women  Academic Article
• List of essential medicines for Canada  Academic Article
• Literature Review and Global Consensus on Management of Acute Radiation Syndrome Affecting Nonhematopoietic Organ Systems  Academic Article
• Management of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: WHO guidelines for low tuberculosis burden countries  Academic Article
• Mapping child growth failure across low- and middle-income countries  Academic Article
• Market forces in public health  Academic Article
• Measurement Invariance of the WHODAS 2.0 Across Youth With and Without Physical or Mental Conditions  Academic Article
• Measurement Invariance of the WHODAS 2.0 in a Population-Based Sample of Youth  Academic Article
• Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019  Academic Article
• Medicines for cancers in children: The WHO model for selection of essential medicines  Academic Article
• NCDs and the WHO Essential Medicines Lists: children need universal health coverage too  Academic Article
• Needs-based planning for the oral health workforce - development and application of a simulation model  Academic Article
• Networks as systems  Academic Article
• Over half of the WHO guidelines published from 2014 to 2019 explicitly considered health equity issues: a cross-sectional survey  Academic Article
• Paediatric surgery and anaesthesia in south-western Uganda: a cross-sectional survey  Academic Article
• Pediatric Feeding Disorder  Academic Article
• Personal perception and personal factors: incorporating health-related quality of life into the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health  Academic Article
• Placebo use and unblinding in COVID-19 vaccine trials: recommendations of a WHO Expert Working Group  Academic Article
• Polypills  Academic Article
• Pooled analysis of WHO Surgical Safety Checklist use and mortality after emergency laparotomy  Academic Article
• Prevention of depression: would it relieve the burden of morbidity?  Academic Article
• Principles for National and Regional Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention  Academic Article
• Producing and translating health system evidence for improved global health  Academic Article
• Prognostic Performance and Reproducibility of the 1973 and 2004/2016 World Health Organization Grading Classification Systems in Non–muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer: A European Association of Urology Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer Guidelines Panel Systematic Review  Academic Article
• Protocol for prospective collaborative overviews of major randomized trials of blood-pressure-lowering treatments. World Health Organization-International Society of Hypertension Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration.  Academic Article
• Pulmonary hypertension: diagnostic approach and optimal management  Academic Article
• Quality of life in systemic sclerosis: Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II  Academic Article
• Recommendation mapping of the World Health Organization's guidelines on tuberculosis: A new approach to digitizing and presenting recommendations  Academic Article
• Reducing deaths by diet: Call to action for a public policy agenda for chronic disease prevention.  Academic Article
• Reference materials and reference measurement systems in laboratory medicine--a major international meeting organized by the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC), Geneva, October 5-7, 1994.  Academic Article
• Relation between randomized controlled trials published in leading general medical journals and the global burden of disease  Academic Article
• Reliability and Validity of the HIV Disability Questionnaire (HDQ) with Adults Living with HIV in the United States  Academic Article
• Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused: WHO recommendations  Academic Article
• RoB-SPEO: A tool for assessing risk of bias in studies estimating the prevalence of exposure to occupational risk factors from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury  Academic Article
• School-aged children with SLI: The ICF as a framework for collaborative service delivery  Academic Article
• Senior GRADE methodologists encounter challenges as part of WHO guideline development panels: an inductive content analysis  Academic Article
• Severe Obesity, Obesity, and Cardiometabolic Risk in Children 0 to 6 Years of Age  Academic Article
• Solidarity in the wake of COVID-19: reimagining the International Health Regulations  Academic Article
• Split WHO in two: strengthening political decision-making and securing independent scientific advice  Academic Article
• Stakeholders’ perceptions of policy options to support the integration of community health workers in health systems  Academic Article
• Stakeholders’ perceptions of rehabilitation services for individuals living with disability: a survey study  Academic Article
• Standardization of Adverse Event Terminology and Reporting in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy: Application to the Cervical Spine  Academic Article
• Steering clear: Traffic violations among emerging adults who engage in habitual or casual cannabis use  Academic Article
• Strategies for implementing the WHO diagnostic criteria and classification of hyperglycaemia first detected in pregnancy  Academic Article
• Success factors for reducing maternal and child mortality  Academic Article
• Suporte para uso de evidências de pesquisa nas Américas através do "one-stop shop" eletrônico: EVIPNet VHL  Academic Article
• Surgical Safety Training of World Health Organization Initiatives  Academic Article
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of benefits and harms of cryotherapy, LEEP, and cold knife conization to treat cervical intraepithelial neoplasia  Academic Article
• Ten-year incident osteoporosis-related fractures in the population-based Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study — Comparing site and age-specific risks in women and men  Academic Article
• The First Meeting of the WHO Guideline Development Group for the Revision of the WHO 1999 Guidelines for Iodine Thyroid Blocking  Conference Paper
• The GINA asthma strategy report: what’s new for primary care?  Academic Article
• The Gestalt of functioning in autism spectrum disorder: Results of the international conference to develop final consensus International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health core sets  Academic Article
• The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA): 25 years later  Academic Article
• The ICF model of functioning and disability: Incorporating quality of life and human development  Academic Article
• The New International Health Regulations and the Federalism Dilemma  Academic Article
• The Syndromic Approach to Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Low-Income Countries: Issues, Challenges, and Future Directions  Academic Article
• The WHO AWaRe Antibiotic Book: providing guidance on optimal use and informing policy  Academic Article
• The WHO analgesic ladder for cancer pain management. Stepping up the quality of its evaluation  Academic Article
• The WHO essential medicines list AWaRe book: from a list to a quality improvement system  Academic Article
• The World Health Organization quality of life assessment (WHOQOL): Position paper from the World Health Organization  Academic Article
• The case for an essential medicines list for Canada  Academic Article
• The effect of exposure to long working hours on ischaemic heart disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury  Academic Article
• The effect of occupational exposure to welding fumes on trachea, bronchus and lung cancer: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury  Academic Article
• The effect of occupational exposure to welding fumes on trachea, bronchus and lung cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury  Academic Article
• The impact of social determinants on cardiovascular disease  Academic Article
• The management of hypertension in Canada: a review of current guidelines, their shortcomings and implications for the future.  Academic Article
• The prevalence of occupational exposure to ergonomic risk factors: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury  Academic Article
• The role of Cochrane reviews in informing international guidelines: a case study of using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation system to develop World Health Organization guidelines for the psychosocially assisted pharmac  Academic Article
• The world health organization international classification of functioning, disability, and health: a model to guide clinical thinking, practice and research in the field of cerebral palsy  Academic Article
• Time to rethink clinically important outcomes in platelet transfusion trials  Academic Article
• Tobacco control in tobacco-producing countries.  Academic Article
• Trading health for oil? Uganda should not export its health workers  Academic Article
• Transforming Our World: Implementing the 2030 Agenda Through Sustainable Development Goal Indicators  Academic Article
• Transforming Our World: Implementing the 2030 Agenda Through Sustainable Development Goal Indicators.  Academic Article
• Transparent Development of the WHO Rapid Advice Guidelines  Academic Article
• US drug shortages compared to the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines for Children: A cross-sectional study  Academic Article
• Uniform definition of asthma severity, control, and exacerbations: Document presented for the World Health Organization Consultation on Severe Asthma  Academic Article
• Use of Chest Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of COVID-19: A WHO Rapid Advice Guide  Academic Article
• Use of evidence in WHO recommendations  Academic Article
• Use of evidence in WHO recommendations.  Academic Article
• Use of the GRADE approach in health policymaking and evaluation: a scoping review of nutrition and physical activity policies  Academic Article
• Using GRADE evidence to decision frameworks to choose from multiple interventions  Academic Article
• Using GRADE methodology for the development of public health guidelines for the prevention and treatment of HIV and other STIs among men who have sex with men and transgender people  Academic Article
• Using multistakeholder dialogues to assess policies, programmes and progress for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health  Academic Article
• Using the Grade Approach to Support the Development of Recommendations for Public Health Interventions in Radiation Emergencies  Conference Paper
• Vascular Access Surveillance: Case Study of a False Paradigm  Academic Article
• Ventilation Techniques and Risk for Transmission of Coronavirus Disease, Including COVID-19  Academic Article
• Vertebral Fracture Status and the World Health Organization Risk Factors for Predicting Osteoporotic Fracture Risk*  Academic Article
• Violence, health, and the 2030 agenda: Merging evidence and implementation  Academic Article
• WHO COVID-19 therapeutic guidelines  Academic Article
• WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization.  Conference Paper
• WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: development of an evidence based global public health treaty  Academic Article
• WHO Living Guidelines on antivirals for COVID-19 are evidence-based  Academic Article
• WHO Rapid Advice Guidelines for pharmacological management of sporadic human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus  Academic Article
• WHO guidance on COVID-19 vaccine trial designs in the context of authorized COVID-19 vaccines and expanding global access: Ethical considerations  Academic Article
• WHO guidance on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment: using and communicating the evidence  Academic Article
• WHO guidance on the prevention of viral hepatitis B and C among people who inject drugs  Academic Article
• WHO guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis: 2011 update  Academic Article
• WHO must live up to its values and include data on Palestinians  Academic Article
• WHO study on Prevention of REcurrences of Myocardial Infarction and StrokE (WHO-PREMISE).  Academic Article
• WHO's Response to Global Public Health Threats: XDR-TB  Academic Article
• Who Expert Committee on Biological Standardization.  Book
• World Health Organization Announcement  Academic Article
• World Health Organization Global Estimates and Regional Comparisons of the Burden of Foodborne Disease in 2010  Academic Article
• World Health Organization Guidelines for treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2-3 and screen-and-treat strategies to prevent cervical cancer  Academic Article
• World Health Organization Guidelines: Use of cryotherapy for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia  Academic Article
• World Health Organization Influenza-Like Illness Underestimates the Burden of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Community-Dwelling Older Adults  Academic Article
• World Health Organization and emergency health: if not now, when?:  Academic Article
• World Health Organization recommendations are often strong based on low confidence in effect estimates  Academic Article
• World Health Organization recommends first malaria vaccine  Academic Article
• World Health Organization strong recommendations based on low-quality evidence (study quality) are frequent and often inconsistent with GRADE guidance  Academic Article
• World Health Organization treatment guidelines for drug-resistant tuberculosis, 2016 update  Academic Article
• XDR-TB in South Africa: No Time for Denial or Complacency  Academic Article
• Zika Virus in Ontario: Evaluating a Rapid Risk Assessment Tool for Emerging Infectious Disease Threats  Academic Article
• [ARIA (Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma). Achievements in 10 years and future needs in Latin America].  Academic Article