Fact files

Latest fact file

• 10 facts on blood transfusion
  June 2013

• Adolescent health
  September 2008
• Ageing and the life course
  April 2012
• Antimicrobial resistance
  March 2012
• Asthma
  May 2011
• Blindness and visual impairment
  October 2012
• Breastfeeding
  July 2012
• Cancer
  Reviewed January 2013
• Child health
  October 2012
• Children's environmental health
  December 2009
• Cholera
  December 2012
• Climate change
  October 2012
• Deafness
  February 2013
• Dementia
  April 2012
• Diabetes
  Updated March 2013
• Disability
  November 2012
• Environmental and occupational health and cancer
  September 2011
• Environmental health
  November 2010
• Essential medicines
  February 2010
• Food safety
  October 2009
• Gender and tobacco
  May 2010
• Global tobacco epidemic
  May 2012
• Guinea-worm disease
  October 2011
• Health inequities and their causes
  October 2011
• Health workforce
  March 2008
• HIV/AIDS
  November 2012
• Immunization
  April 2012
• Injuries and violence
  March 2008
• Injuries to children
  October 2012
• Malaria
  March 2013
• Maternal health
  Updated September 2010
• Mental health
  October 2011
• Midwifery
  Reviewed May 2013
• Noncommunicable diseases
  Updated March 2013
• Nutrition
  October 2012
• Obesity
  Reviewed march 2013
• Obstetric fistula
  March 2010
• Patient safety
  May 2007
• Physical activity
  Reviewed March 2013
• Polio eradication
  February 2012
• Road safety
  March 2013
• Safe surgery
  June 2008
• Sanitation
  March 2011
• Second-hand smoke
  December 2009
• Sexually transmitted infections
  October 2008
• State of global health
  December 2012
• Statistics
  December 2007
• Tuberculosis
  February 2013
• Universal health coverage
  May 2012
• Violence prevention
  Updated September 2011
• Water scarcity
  20 March 2009
• Women's health
  March 2011
• Youth and road safety
  September 2012