Japanese WHO Collaborating Centres (WHO CCs) fight against COVID-19

Industry in the fight against COVID-19 crisis

WATER & RISK WHO Collaborating

Klyrgyzstan is a rugged country, with the Tien Shan lmountain range covering approximately 95% of the whole territory. The average altitude in Kyrgyzstan is 2,750m above sea level. The highest point is Peak Pobeda at 7,439m and the lowest is 350m above sea level in the south-west of the republic. Kyrgyzstan is the second smallest of the Central Asian republics in both area and population and is...

Who is Funding What in the Fight Against Pneumonia?

Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs), including pneumonia, are a leading cause ofmortality globally. In 2013, an estimated 708,600 children aged 1 to 5 years of age died from LRTIsmaking it themain killer in this age group; approximately 99% of these deaths occurred in developing countries. (Nair et al., 2013; GBD2013Mortality andCauses of Death Collaborators, 2015). In developed countrie...

Meeting of Who Collaborating Centres for the Family of International Classifications

(no more than 200 words) The International Classification of External Causes of Injury version 1.1 (ICECI) was accepted into the alpha phase of the process for admission into the WHO Family of International Classifications at the October 2002 meeting (Brisbane). Technical updates and developments of the ICECI system since that time are described in this paper. These are: 1. ICECI system update ...

Meeting of Who Collaborating Centres for the Family of International Classifications

Since the last WHO-FIC meeting, where the functional specifications of the planned maintenance and publication tool were discussed, the technical specification of the tool was finalized and the programming has begun. As described in the functional specifications the toolset will be a standalone tool which will hopefully run under the most common operating systems. The database containing the cl...