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(Publication Date: 2025-05-16, Accepted: 2025-05-16, Available Online: 2025-05-16)Health System Reviews or HiTs are flagship products of APO that support countries in evidence-based policy making. They are the most downloaded publications from the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific with substantial ...
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(Publication Date: 2025-05-15, Accepted: 2025-05-15, Available Online: 2025-05-15)
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(Publication Date: 2025-05-07, Accepted: 2025-05-07, Available Online: 2025-05-07)
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(Publication Date: 2025-02-14, Accepted: 2025-02-14, Available Online: 2025-02-14)Japan’s AMR Response 2013–2025: Developing, implementing and evaluating national AMR action plans contains “valuable insights for policy-makers and health-care professionals involved in tackling AMR worldwide”, said Dr ...
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(Publication Date: 2025-02-13, Accepted: 2025-02-13, Available Online: 2025-02-13)Ensuring strong infection prevention and control (IPC) is essential for patient and healthcare worker safety. WHO reviewed IPC integration across six Western Pacific countries, analyzing 738 documents. Findings highlighted ...
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(Publication Date: 2025-02-07, Accepted: 2025-02-07, Available Online: 2025-02-07)The STEPS survey is a simple, standardized method for collecting, analysing and disseminating data on key NCD risk factors in countries. The survey instrument covers key behavioural risk factors including: tobacco use; ...
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(Publication Date: 2025-02-06, Accepted: 2025-02-06, Available Online: 2025-02-06)While low-income countries have received support on financing and delivery of immunization services from donors, many middle-income countries in Asia face challenges when introducing new WHO-recommended vaccines. None-the-less, ...
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(Publication Date: 2025-02-06, Accepted: 2025-02-06, Available Online: 2025-02-06)This report comprehensively reviews Japan’s well-child care (WCC) from systems perspective, examining policies, strategies, and programs that have driven significant improvements in child health. It focuses on six key areas ...
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(Publication Date: 2024-12-11, Accepted: 2024-12-11, Available Online: 2024-12-12)
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(Publication Date: 2024-12-04, Accepted: 2024-12-04, Available Online: 2024-12-04)The WHO Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health in the Western Pacific Region has published guidance to support informed decision-making on water and sanitation technologies in the region’s health-care facilities. ...
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(Publication Date: 2024-12-04, Accepted: 2024-12-04, Available Online: 2024-12-04)The WHO Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health in the Western Pacific Region has published guidance to support informed decision-making on water and sanitation technologies in the region’s health-care facilities. ...
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(Publication Date: 2024-12-04, Accepted: 2024-12-04, Available Online: 2024-12-04)The WHO Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health in the Western Pacific Region has published guidance to support informed decision-making on water and sanitation technologies in the region’s health-care facilities. ...
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(Publication Date: 2024, Accepted: 2024-11-11, Available Online: 2024-11-11)This comparative country study examines the integration of health and social care services for ageing populations across the Asia Pacific region, with a special focus on Hong Kong, Seoul, Thiruvananthapuram, and Shanghai. ...
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(Publication Date: 2024, Accepted: 2024-10-30, Available Online: 2024-10-30)
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(Publication Date: 2024, Accepted: 2024-10-20, Available Online: 2024-10-20)Over the past 20 years, the WHO Western Pacific Region has made significant progress in tobacco control, guided by the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This progress is attributed to a combination of comprehensive ...
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(Publication Date: 2024, Accepted: 2024-10-16, Available Online: 2024-10-16)This report highlights the strategic, technical and operational support of WHO to COVID-19 preparedness and response in Cambodia, and how past capacity-building and investment in the health sector have enabled the country ...
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(Publication Date: 2024, Accepted: 2024-10-15, Available Online: 2024-10-15)Health Statistics in the Western Pacific Region 2023: Monitoring health for the SDGs is the third biennial report providing an overview of the progress of the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region towards ...
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(WPR/2024/DSI/001, Publication Date: 2024, Accepted: 2024-10-14, Available Online: 2024-10-14)
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(Publication Date: 2024, Accepted: 2024-09-26, Available Online: 2024-09-26)This policy brief examines the health inequities experienced by migrant workers in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand during the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights the barriers to healthcare access and the disproportionate ...
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(Publication Date: 2024, Accepted: 2024-09-06, Available Online: 2024-09-06)This publication includes regional and national trends on Hepatitis B immunization coverage as well as current impact and system indicators that support the programme. Monitoring these trends is essential for better planning ...
