World Health Organization
"World Health Organization" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A specialized agency of the United Nations designed as a coordinating authority on international health work; its aim is to promote the attainment of the highest possible level of health by all peoples.
| Descriptor ID |
D014944
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.540.514.718.800
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "World Health Organization" by people in this website by year, and whether "World Health Organization" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2014 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2015 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2016 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2017 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 2018 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2019 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2020 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2021 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2022 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2023 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "World Health Organization" by people in Profiles.
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The Economic Impact of Reliance on an African Medicines Regulatory Authority. Pharmaceut Med. 2025 Mar; 39(2):109-123.
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A Global Collaborative Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Antigenicity Across 15 Laboratories. Viruses. 2024 12 18; 16(12).
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Target regimen profiles for tuberculosis treatment. Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Aug 01; 102(8):600-607.
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A WHO-led global strategy to control greenhouse gas emissions: a call for action. Global Health. 2024 Jan 02; 20(1):4.
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SMA-TB: study protocol for the phase 2b randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to estimate the potential efficacy and safety of two repurposed drugs, acetylsalicylic acid and ibuprofen, for use as adjunct therapy added to, and compared with, the standard WHO recommended TB regimen. Trials. 2023 Jun 28; 24(1):435.
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In-hospital mortality risk stratification in children aged under 5 years with pneumonia with or without pulse oximetry: A secondary analysis of the Pneumonia REsearch Partnership to Assess WHO REcommendations (PREPARE) dataset. Int J Infect Dis. 2023 Apr; 129:240-250.
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A new WHO bottle bioassay method to assess the susceptibility of mosquito vectors to public health insecticides: results from a WHO-coordinated multi-centre study. Parasit Vectors. 2023 Jan 20; 16(1):21.
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Results from the second WHO external quality assessment for the molecular detection of respiratory syncytial virus, 2019-2020. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2023 01; 17(1):e13073.
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Assembling a global database of child pneumonia studies to inform WHO pneumonia management algorithm: Methodology and applications. J Glob Health. 2022 Dec 29; 12:04075.
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Public Health Measures to Address the Impact of Climate Change on Population Health-Proceedings from a Stakeholder Workshop. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 10 21; 19(20).