Toolkit | Action oriented
Take Action To Improve Health: Act on What's Important
An online toolkit delivered as a suite of advice and frameworks for promoting policy, systems and environmental changes to improve community health for the long term. The section featured here specifically looks at how to develop public and political will. The toolkit offers a collection of HIAs,...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: Population Health Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Initiative, Training | Action oriented | Descriptive resource
The city at eye level
This is a worldwide programme with many partners. The website has many resources including open source books, some put together in partnership with UN-Habitat. Shared working through seeing a place through the eyes of a child. Useful for community, businesses, the public sector and public health practitioners. ...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: STIPO, The Netherlands.
Evidence, Toolkit | 2022Descriptive resource
WHO Urban Health Initiative in Accra, Ghana: summary of project results
This report summarizes project results from the pilot in the city of Accra (Ghana) to address air pollution and related health effects. It provides guidance and available tools that can be adapted to similar initiatives around the world to assess the health impacts of air pollution, promote policies...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: WHO
Evidence, Toolkit | 2021Action oriented
WHO global air quality guidelines: particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide
The overall objective of the updated global guidelines is to offer quantitative health-based recommendations for air quality management, expressed as long- or short-term concentrations for a number of key air pollutants. The main groups of users of this guideline are policy-makers, lawmakers and technical...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: WHO
Evidence | 2019Descriptive resource
Interventions on diet and physical activity: what works: summary report
A summary of tried and tested diet and physical activity interventions that aim to reduce the risk of chronic NCDs. In terms of UTP, interventions in the following categories are included: policy, environment, workplace, schools, mass media, the community, primary health care, older adults and religious...
Language(s): EN, Other | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: Food security and healthier nutrition, Physical activity, Chronic diseases
