WHO Fact Sheets: Public Health, Environmental, and Social Determinants of Health

This report from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) features global, regional, and national data on the status of women around the world, particularly within families, considering current economic, demographics, political, and social transformation. Families around the world can be places of care and fulfillment for women, but are too often also spaces where women’s and girls’ rights are violated, their voices are stifled, and where gender inequality…

This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) analyzes the global progress made in tobacco control by countries worldwide. The 2023 report marks 15 years since the 'MPOWER' measures were introduced–six guidelines established by the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) to promote government action on tobacco control. The 'MPOWER' measures include monitoring tobacco use; protecting people from tobacco smoke; offering cessation help; warning about tobacco dangers; enforcing bans on advertising; and raising taxes.…

This resource portal from the National Library of Medicine explores “graphic medicine,” the field that uses comics to tell personal stories of health and illness. In comics, text and image work together to create meaning; often times, the author uses the artwork to convey the internal, emotional dimension of health and health care experiences. The exhibit includes excerpts from a variety of graphic medicine texts, which highlight patient, clinician, caregiver, and public health perspectives. The…