WHO Fact Sheet: Palliative Care

This Commission report describes the overall state of health and cancer control in China, India, and Russia. It also considers additional specific issues for each country: for China, access to care, contamination of the environment, and cancer fatalism and traditional medicine; for India, affordability of care, provision of adequate health personnel, and sociocultural barriers to cancer control; and for Russia, monitoring of the burden of cancer, societal attitudes towards cancer prevention, effects of inequitable treatment…

This report by the World Health Organization (WHO) describes progress on multisectoral efforts to address dementia worldwide. Though dementia is a leading cause of disability globally, only a quarter of countries worldwide have a national policy, strategy or plan for supporting people with dementia and their families. According to the report, more than 55 million people worldwide currently live with dementia--a number that is expected to more than double by 2050.  This global analysis underscores…

This fact sheet from the World Health Organization (WHO) describes the magnitude and distribution of the health burden of hearing loss, as well as what can be done to prevent, manage, and treat it. Over 5 percent of the world’s population has disabling hearing loss. By 2050 over 2.5 billion are estimated to have some degree of hearing loss and 700 million will require hearing rehabilitation. Hearing loss can be due to genetic causes, complications…