الوثائق والتقارير

Air Quality Management Planning for Lagos State (الإنجليزية)

Ambient air pollution is a major contributor to illness and premature deaths in much of the developing world, including Lagos. The World Bank is committed to supporting countries severely affected by pollution...

Drivers and Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution in Slovakia (الإنجليزية)

This report, created with the support of the Structural Reform Support Program of the European Commission (EC), provides an estimate of the health impacts of current concentrations of air pollutants in...

Global burden of disease: generating evidence, guiding policy main findings from East Asia and Pacific regional edition (الإنجليزية)

The main findings from the East Asia and Pacific Regional Edition of the paper, Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy include: 1) Substantial progress has been made in postponing...

Global burden of disease: generating evidence, guiding policy main findings from the Sub-Saharan Africa regional edition (الإنجليزية)

The main findings from the Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Edition of the brief, Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy include: 1) Overall progress has been made in postponing death...

The global burden of disease : generating evidence, guiding policy - sub-Saharan Africa regional edition (الإنجليزية)

This report is based on seven papers for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 published in The Lancet (December 13, 2010; 380). This publication summarizes the global GBD 2010 findings and highlights...

Global burden of disease: generating evidence, guiding policy main findings from the Middle East and North Africa regional edition (الإنجليزية)

The main findings from the Middle East and North Africa Regional Edition of the brief, Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy include: 1) Substantial progress has been made in postponing...

Global burden of disease: generating evidence, guiding policy main findings from the South Asia regional edition (الإنجليزية)

The main findings from the South Asia Regional Edition of the brief, Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy include: 1) Substantial progress has been made in postponing death between...

The global burden of disease : generating evidence, guiding policy - South Asia regional edition (الإنجليزية)

This report is based on seven papers for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 published in The Lancet (December 13, 2010; 380). This publication summarizes the global GBD 2010 findings as well as the...

Global burden of disease: generating evidence, guiding policy main findings from the Europe and Central Asia regional edition (الإنجليزية)

The main findings from the Europe and Central Asia Regional Edition of the brief, Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy include: 1) Substantial progress has been made in postponing...

Global burden of disease: generating evidence, guiding policy main findings from the Latin America and Caribbean regional edition (الإنجليزية)

The main findings from the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Edition of the brief, Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy include: 1) Substantial progress has been made in postponing...

Smoke-free workplaces (الإنجليزية)

Smoking harms the health of smokers and those around them. Smokers are at far higher risks of strokes, heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases; cancers of the lungs, mouth, larynx, bladder, pancreas...

Valuing the health effects of air pollution (الإنجليزية)

It is known that high levels of air pollution are bad for health and can cause premature death in rapidly growing cities. A cost-benefit analysis of air pollution is necessary for a rough estimate in reducing...

Tobacco in developing countries : an economic approach to policy formulation (الإنجليزية)

This paper examines tobacco policies for less developed countries within the neo-classical welfare economics framework. The need for tobacco policies arises because tobacco consumption can be an important...

Evaluating healthy days of life gained from health projects (الإنجليزية)

This paper draws attention to the importance of incorporating weights for time preference and productivity in using the concept of healthy days of life lost to evaluate health projects. Two alternative...

The cost-effectiveness of blindness prevention by the onchocerciasis control program in Upper Volta (الإنجليزية)

This paper presents a cost effectiveness analysis of blindness prevention by the Onchocerciasis Control Program in Upper Volta, utilizing recent epidemiological data on changes in the incidence of blindness...

Bank notes (الإنجليزية)

This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: Credit Union (CU) installs mini-computer; film crew experiences life in Indian village; staff member discovers island of sheep, beaches...

Minutes of the Two Hundred and Nineteenth Regular Meeting of the Executive Directors held on June 14, 1951 (الإنجليزية)