WHO, UNDP, UNEP and UNICEF have partnered to create a new compendium of 500 actions aimed at reducing death and diseases driven by environmental risk factors, the first such resource to unite this expertise from across the UN system.

Number of people living with hypertension has doubled to 1.28 billion since 1990.

Growing use of AI for health presents governments, providers, and communities with opportunities and challenges.

More than 30 resolutions and decisions were adopted at this year's World Health Assembly in different areas of public health

Long working hours led to 745 000 deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016, a 29 per cent increase since 2000, according to the latest estimates by the World Health Organization and the International Labour Organization published in Environment International today.  

WHO is convening 11 leading figures in economics, health and development from around the world as the first members of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All.