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Tracking out-of-pocket health expenditure under System of Health Accounts 2011

Out-of-pocket (OOP) spending by households is a major way of financing health expenditure in many countries, often linking access to care with the ability...

Safety evaluation of certain food additives: prepared by the one-hundredth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)

The One-hundredth meeting of the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on...

Air quality monitoring for enhanced understanding of health impacts and beyond

Monitoring air quality (for example collecting continuous and quality data) is integral and critical to detecting air pollutants and to ensuring information...

WHO water, sanitation, hygiene and waste strategy 2026-2035

Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) still drive at least 1.4 million preventable deaths each year, while climate shocks, outbreaks, migration...