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A

Abortion: induced abortion does not increase breast cancer risk
Air pollution, indoor: Indoor air pollution and health
Air quality and health
Anthrax
Antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobials: use outside human medicine and resultant antimicrobial resistance in humans
Arsenic in drinking water
Asthma
Avian influenza (" bird flu")

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B

Blindness: magnitude and causes of visual impairment
Blood safety and donation
Bottled drinking water
Botulism
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Brucellosis
Buruli ulcer disease

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C

Campylobacter
Cancer
Cardiovascular diseases
Chernobyl accident: an overview of the health effects
Chikungunya
Children: reducing mortality
Cholera
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Civil registration: why counting births and deaths is important
Climate and health
Condoms: effectiveness of latex condoms
Contraception: Emergency contraception
Counterfeit medicines
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever

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D

Deafness and hearing impairment
Death: Top 10 causes
Dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever
Depleted uranium
Diabetes
Dioxins and their effects on human health
Diphtheria

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E

Ebola haemorrhagic fever
El NiƱo and its health impact
Electromagnetic fields and public health: base stations and wireless technologies
Electromagnetic fields and public health: electromagnetic hypersensitivity
Electromagnetic fields and public health: exposure to extremely low frequency fields
Electromagnetic fields and public health: extremely low frequency
Electromagnetic fields and public health: extremely low frequency fields and cancer
Electromagnetic fields and public health: mobile telephones and their base stations
Electromagnetic fields and public health: static electric and magnetic fields
Emergency and humanitarian action
Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC)
Enteroviruses - non polio
Environmental health: The environment and health for children and their mothers
Epilepsy
Epilepsy: aetiogy, epidemiology and prognosis
Epilepsy: historical overview
Epilepsy: scientific and medical advances
Epilepsy: social consequences and economic aspects
Essential Medicines List (EML)

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F

Facts about health in the African Region of WHO
Female genital mutilation
Fires, vegetation
Food safety and foodborne illness
Foodborne diseases, emerging

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G

Gender, health and poverty

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H

Haemoglobin disorders: sickle-cell disease and others
Haemophilus influenzae type B (HiB)
Headache disorders
Health expenditure: A global overview
Health of indigenous peoples
Health services financing
Health workers: migration
Health workers: the global shortage of and its impact
Healthy environments for children
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis E
Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)

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I

Immunization against diseases of public health importance
Influenza
Injection safety

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L

Lassa fever
Legionellosis
Leprosy
Lymphatic filariasis

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M

Malaria
Marburg haemorrhagic fever
Measles
Medicines: the WHO prequalification project
Meningococcal meningitis
Mental health: strengthening mental health promotion
Microbicides: women and microbicides
Millennium Development Goals: WHO and the Millennium Development Goals
Monkeypox

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N

Nipah virus
Noncommunicable diseases: Surveillance of noncommunicable disease risk factors

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O

Obesity and overweight
Obstetric care
Occupational and community noise
Oral health

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P

Plague
Poliomyelitis
Pregnancy: making pregnancy safer
Prevention: integrating prevention into health care

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R

Rabies
Radon and cancer
Rift Valley fever

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S

Salmonella: Drug-Resistant Salmonella
Schistosomiasis
Sexually transmitted infections
Ship sanitation and health
Silicosis
Smallpox
Sunbeds, tanning and UV exposure

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T

The right to health
The safety of medicines: adverse drug reactions
Traditional medicine
Tuberculosis

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U

Ultraviolet radiation: global disease burden from solar UV
Ultraviolet radiation: global solar UV index
Ultraviolet radiation: protecting children from ultraviolet radiation
Ultraviolet radiation: solar radiation and human health

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V

Vaccines: Development of new vaccines
Vaccines: quality and safety from development to delivery
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Violence against women

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W

Waste: Health-care waste management
Wastes from health-care activities
Women and mental health
Women and sexually transmitted infections
Women, ageing and health

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Y

Yaws
Yellow fever

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