World Health Organization

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A clinical decision support system for integrating tuberculosis and HIV care in Kenya: a human-centered design approach. 
  • ATS Core Curriculum 2014: part I. Adult pulmonary medicine. 
  • Access to ophthalmologic care in Thailand: a regional analysis. 
  • Adult infiltrating gliomas with WHO 2016 integrated diagnosis: additional prognostic roles of ATRX and TERT. 
  • Age-related differences in reporting of drug-associated liver injury: data-mining of WHO Safety Report Database. 
  • An estimation of the global volume of surgery: a modelling strategy based on available data. 
  • Analysis of semen parameters in male referrals: impact of reference limits, stratification by fertility categories, predictors of change, and comparison of normal semen parameters in subfertile couples. 
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Proceedings of the STAR Sexually Transmitted Infection-Clinical Trial Group Programmatic Meeting. 
  • Applying the WHO conceptual framework for the International Classification for Patient Safety to a surgical population. 
  • Approaches to the development of broadly protective HIV vaccines: challenges posed by the genetic, biological and antigenic variability of HIV-1: Report from a meeting of the WHO-UNAIDS Vaccine Advisory Committee Geneva, 21-23 February 2000. 
  • Atypical antipsychotics and pituitary neoplasms in the WHO database. 
  • Baby food industry lobbies WHO on breast feeding advice. 
  • Baby friendly hospitals toward a baby friendly world. 
  • Ban on thimerosal in draft treaty on mercury: why the AAP's position in 2012 is so important. 
  • Barriers for medical devices for the developing world. 
  • Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma and lung adenocarcinoma: the clinical importance and research relevance of the 2004 World Health Organization pathologic criteria. 
  • Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis. 
  • Calibration of two validated SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus neutralization assays for COVID-19 vaccine evaluation. 
  • Can proliferation biomarkers reliably predict recurrence in World Health Organization 2003 defined endometrial stromal sarcoma, low grade? 
  • Central Nervous System Tumor Classification: An Update on the Integration of Tumor Genetics. 
  • Childhood immunizations. 
  • Clinical characteristics and long-term outcomes for patients who undergo cytoreductive surgery for thoracic meningiomas: a retrospective analysis. 
  • Comedications alter drug-induced liver injury reporting frequency: Data mining in the WHO VigiBase™. 
  • Completeness and concordancy of WHO grade assignment for brain and central nervous system tumors in the United States, 2004-2011. 
  • Comprehensive hands-on training for influenza vaccine manufacturing: a WHO-BARDA-BTEC partnership for global workforce development. 
  • Control of diarrhoeal diseases. 
  • Creating a culture of safety by using checklists. 
  • Descriptive epidemiology of World Health Organization grades II and III intracranial meningiomas in the United States. 
  • Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Fulfilling the Potential on the Road to Elimination. 
  • Drugs associated with hepatotoxicity and their reporting frequency of liver adverse events in VigiBase: unified list based on international collaborative work. 
  • Education and Debate: WHO's management: struggling to transform a "fossilised bureaucracy". 
  • Effect of WHO newborn care training on neonatal mortality by education. 
  • Effect of a 19-item surgical safety checklist during urgent operations in a global patient population. 
  • Electing WHO's next leader. 
  • Evaluating capacity at three government referral hospital emergency units in the kingdom of Eswatini using the WHO Hospital Emergency Unit Assessment Tool. 
  • Evaluation and use of epidemiological evidence for environmental health risk assessment: WHO guideline document. 
  • Evaluation of in-hospital management for febrile illness in Northern Tanzania before and after 2010 World Health Organization Guidelines for the treatment of malaria. 
  • Evaluation of the WHO 2009 classification for diagnosis of acute dengue in a large cohort of adults and children in Sri Lanka during a dengue-1 epidemic. 
  • Evolution of the World Health Organization's programmatic actions to control diarrheal diseases. 
  • Exploratory investigation of the outcomes of wheelchair provision through two service models in Indonesia. 
  • Facing forward after Ebola: questions for the next director general of the World Health Organization. 
  • Faltering steps towards partnerships. 
  • Genetic variation of HIV type 1 in four World Health Organization-sponsored vaccine evaluation sites: generation of functional envelope (glycoprotein 160) clones representative of sequence subtypes A, B, C, and E. WHO Network for HIV Isolation and Characterization. 
  • Global AIDS prevention and control. 
  • Global eHealth capacity: secondary analysis of WHO data on eHealth and implications for kidney care delivery in low-resource settings. 
  • Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data. 
  • Global surgery and the World Health Organization: indispensable partners to achieve triple billion goals. 
  • Grand challenges in global mental health. 
  • Have the latest reforms reversed WHO's decline? 
  • Health-related quality of life in Chinese workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Hemoglobin and Clinical Outcomes in the Vericiguat Global Study in Patients With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction (VICTORIA). 
  • Histotype classification of ovarian carcinoma: A comparison of approaches. 
  • ICF core sets: how to specify impairment and function in systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Imaging correlates for the 2016 update on WHO classification of grade II/III gliomas: implications for IDH, 1p/19q and ATRX status. 
  • Implementation of Tuberculosis Intensive Case Finding, Isoniazid Preventive Therapy, and Infection Control ("Three I's") and HIV-Tuberculosis Service Integration in Lower Income Countries. 
  • Implementation of the World Health Organization Trauma Care Checklist Program in 11 Centers Across Multiple Economic Strata: Effect on Care Process Measures. 
  • Implementation of the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist, including introduction of pulse oximetry, in a resource-limited setting. 
  • Improved grading of IDH-mutated astrocytic gliomas. 
  • Infectious diarrhea in developed and developing countries. 
  • Injury surveillance. 
  • Integrating Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt Quality Checks into the World Health Organization's Safe Surgery Checklist: A Pilot Study. 
  • Ion channel inhibition against COVID-19: A novel target for clinical investigation. 
  • Issues of diagnostic review in brain tumor studies: from the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium. 
  • Life-course socio-economic status and adult BMI in Ghana; analysis of the WHO study on global ageing and adult health (SAGE). 
  • Literature review and global consensus on management of acute radiation syndrome affecting nonhematopoietic organ systems. 
  • Liver metastases of small intestine neuroendocrine tumors: Ki-67 heterogeneity and World Health Organization grade discordance with primary tumors. 
  • Lymphoma of the female genital tract: current status. 
  • 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. 
  • Meningococcal immunisation in Ghana. 
  • Modelling the incremental benefit of introducing malaria screening strategies to antenatal care in Africa. 
  • Morphologic and molecular genetic aspects of oligodendroglial neoplasms. 
  • Morphologic features of 115 lymphomas of the orbit and ocular adnexa categorized according to the World Health Organization classification: are marginal zone lymphomas in the orbit mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue-type lymphomas? 
  • Multiple cardiovascular risk factors in Kenya: evidence from a health and demographic surveillance system using the WHO STEPwise approach to chronic disease risk factor surveillance. 
  • NCCN Biosimilars White Paper: regulatory, scientific, and patient safety perspectives. 
  • New leader, new hope for WHO. 
  • Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas: Malignancies Arising from Mature B Cells. 
  • Oral rehydration therapy for treatment of rotavirus diarrhoea in a rural treatment centre in Bangladesh. 
  • Organ trafficking: global solutions for a global problem. 
  • Outdoor air pollution: a global perspective. 
  • Overestimating the influence of the 1999 WHO classification of lung tumors on survival in bronchioloalveloar carcinoma. 
  • Pediatric Feeding Disorder: Consensus Definition and Conceptual Framework. 
  • Perspectives in quality: designing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. 
  • Phase II Study of Bevacizumab and Vorinostat for Patients with Recurrent World Health Organization Grade 4 Malignant Glioma. 
  • Polio--new challenges in 2006. 
  • Poliovaccine policy--time for a change. 
  • Predicting CD4 lymphocyte count <200 cells/mm(3) in an HIV type 1-infected African population. 
  • Prevalence and causes of low vision and blindness in a rural chinese adult population: the Handan Eye Study. 
  • Prevalence of Pragmatically Defined High CV Risk and its Correlates in LMIC: A Report From 10 LMIC Areas in Africa, Asia, and South America. 
  • Price differentiation and transparency in the global pharmaceutical marketplace. 
  • Primary Mediastinal (Thymic) Large B-Cell Lymphoma: Fidelity of Diagnosis Using WHO Criteria. 
  • Primary cutaneous aggressive epidermotropic cytotoxic T-cell lymphomas: reappraisal of a provisional entity in the 2016 WHO classification of cutaneous lymphomas. 
  • Primary high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma of the esophagus: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 42 resection cases. 
  • Progress in medical information management. Systematized nomenclature of medicine (SNOMED). 
  • Protecting human security: proposals for the G7 Ise-Shima Summit in Japan. 
  • Public-private mix for tuberculosis care and control: a systematic review. 
  • Report of the Joint Nomenclature and Standardization Committee of the International Society of Hypertension, American Heart Association and the World Health Organization. 
  • Report of the WHO technical consultation on the effect of maternal influenza and influenza vaccination on the developing fetus: Montreal, Canada, September 30-October 1, 2015. 
  • Retaining the meaning of the words religiousness and spirituality: a commentary on the WHOQOL SRPB group's "a cross-cultural study of spirituality, religion, and personal beliefs as components of quality of life" (62: 6, 2005, 1486-1497). 
  • Scientists unveil first draft of human genome. 
  • Simpson Grade I-III Resection of Spinal Atypical (World Health Organization Grade II) Meningiomas is Associated With Symptom Resolution and Low Recurrence. 
  • Soft-tissue tumors update: MR imaging features according to the WHO classification. 
  • Surgical neuropathology update: a review of changes introduced by the WHO classification of tumours of the central nervous system, 4th edition. 
  • Sustainability and long-term effectiveness of the WHO surgical safety checklist combined with pulse oximetry in a resource-limited setting: two-year update from Moldova. 
  • Symptom profiles of psychiatric disorders based on graded disease classes: an illustration using data from the WHO International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia. 
  • Systematic review of the performance of HIV viral load technologies on plasma samples. 
  • T-lymphoblastic lymphoma and acute myeloid leukaemia transformed from myeloid neoplasm with eosinophilia: a divergent evolution of myeloid neoplasm with monosomy 7 but no detectable tyrosine kinase gene rearrangements designated by the WHO Classification. 
  • The 1984 Hunter Oration. 
  • The 2015 World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Pleura: Advances since the 2004 Classification. 
  • The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Heart. 
  • The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Pleura: Advances Since the 2015 Classification. 
  • The WHO Air Quality Guidelines 2021 promote great challenge for indoor air. 
  • The World Health Organization Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Self-Report Screening Scale for DSM-5. 
  • The diagnostic credibility of second impact syndrome: A systematic literature review. 
  • The economics of obesity. 
  • The enemy within. 
  • The faculty shortage in nursing: global implications 
  • The global health and diagnostic (flow) cytometry--breakthroughs in HIV and tuberculosis. 
  • The molecular genetics and morphometry-based endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia classification system predicts disease progression in endometrial hyperplasia more accurately than the 1994 World Health Organization classification system. 
  • The politics of assessment: water and sanitation MDGs in the Middle East. 
  • The prevalence and validity of high, biologically implausible values of weight, height, and BMI among 8.8 million children. 
  • Thyroid disorders, noncommunicable diseases that gravely impact public health: a commentary and statement by the Advisory Board of the World Thyroid Federation. 
  • Total lymphocyte count and World Health Organization pediatric clinical stage as markers to assess need to initiate antiretroviral therapy among human immunodeficiency virus-infected children in Moshi, Northern Tanzania. 
  • Two Extraordinary Sellar Neuronal Tumors: Literature Review and Comparison of Clinicopathologic Features. 
  • Understanding the Revised Fourth Edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System (2016) for Clinical Decision-making: A Guide for Oncologists Managing Patients with Glioma. 
  • Using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 to assess disability in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Validity of the WHO cutoffs for biologically implausible values of weight, height, and BMI in children and adolescents in NHANES from 1999 through 2012. 
  • Vulnerable at Each Step in the PMTCT Care Cascade: High Loss to Follow Up During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period in Tanzania. 
  • WHO in 2002: Why does the world still need WHO? 
  • WHO urges Africa to use more effective malaria medicines. 
  • What do we know about the safe surgery checklist now? 
  • World Bank's world development report. 
  • World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist Modification: Do Changes Emphasize Communication and Teamwork? 
  • World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts: revised models to estimate risk in 21 global regions. 
  • Would greater transparency and uniformity of health care prices benefit poor patients? 
  • [Comparison and analysis of clinicopathology of lung cancer between 1980s and 1990s in the Shenyang area (1,224 cases)]. 
  • [Confronting diarrhea on a worldwide scale]. 
  • [Progress in medical information management. Systematized nomenclature of medicine (SNOMED)]. 
  • [The WHO program for controlling diarrheic diseases: its status and developmental outlook--the organizational and operative components of the program]. 
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