The FAO / WHO Codex standard for canned sardines cites 21 species that may be classed as sardines ; FishBase, a comprehensive database of information about fish, calls at least six species " pilchard ", over a dozen just " sardine ", and many more with the two basic names qualified by various adjectives.

In its most recent report, noting that millions of people around the world are suffering from acute and chronic pain, the INCB calls on Governments to support a new programme of the World Health Organization ( WHO ), which aims at improving access to those medicines.

Osteoporosis is defined by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) in women as a bone mineral density 2. 5 standard deviations below peak bone mass ( 20-year-old sex-matched healthy person average ) as measured by DEXA ; the term " established osteoporosis " includes the presence of a fragility fracture.

The term was adopted at the third conference of the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and in 1991 the WHO recommended its use to the United Nations.

Osteoporosis is defined by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) as a bone mineral density that is 2. 5 standard deviations or more below the mean peak bone mass ( average of young, healthy adults ) as measured by DXA ; the term " established osteoporosis " includes the presence of a fragility fracture.

Medical staff, academics and most professionals in the field and international bodies such as the WHO tend to avoid use of the term.

Osteoporosis is defined by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) in women as a bone mineral density 2. 5 standard deviations below peak bone mass ( 20-year-old sex-matched healthy person average ) as measured by DXA ; the term " established osteoporosis " includes the presence of a fragility fracture.

" The term " Sick Building Syndrome " was coined by WHO in 1986 when they also estimated that 10-30 % of newly built office buildings in the West had indoor air problems.

The current WHO standard term is " Triple Energizer " ( TE ), but many authors still prefer to use San Jiao.

A team of specialist from the World Health Organization ( WHO ) assembled in 1957 to address the problem of drug addiction and adopted the term “ drug habituation ” to distinguish some drug-use behaviors from drug addiction.

There are a number of different methods used to judge causation, including the Naranjo algorithm, the Venulet algorithm and the WHO causality term assessment criteria.

The term development cooperation, which is used, for example, by the World Health Organisation ( WHO )

In 1964, a new WHO committee found these definitions to be inadequate, and suggested using the blanket term " drug dependence ":

During his term PyongSu became the first North Korean pharmaceutical factory to attain GMP ( a universally recognized quality standard in the pharmaceutical industry as defined by the WHO ), and repeatedly inspected and confirmed by the WHO.

It was eventually replaced by ICD-10, the version currently in use by the WHO and most countries.

The latest version came into use in WHO Member States starting in 1994.

Several materials are made available online by WHO to facilitate its use, including a manual, training guidelines, a browser, and files for download.

The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is in current use worldwide in the effort to improve patient safety.

WHO promotes the development of capacities in member states to use and produce research that addresses their national needs, including through the Evidence-Informed Policy Network ( EVIPNet ).

" The WHO does not recommend the use of thalidomide in leprosy as experience has shown that it is virtually impossible to develop and implement a fool-proof surveillance mechanism to combat misuse of the drug.

The WHO ( World Health Organization ) recommends the use of mumps vaccines in all countries with well-functioning childhood vaccination programmes.

In 2004, the WHO and UNICEF recommended the use of low-osmolarity oral rehydration solution and zinc supplementation as a two-pronged treatment of acute diarrhoea.

It has no observable acute toxicity in rats, and is approved by WHO for use in drinking water cisterns to combat malaria.

For example, in 1995 the World Health Organization ( WHO ) and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute ( UNICRI ) announced in a press release the publication of the results of the largest global study on cocaine use ever undertaken.

The Joint FAO / WHO expert committee on food additives states that, " based on the information available, it is inadvisable to use carrageenan or processed eucheuma seaweed in infant formulas ".

: Environmental health as used by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, includes both the direct pathological effects of chemicals, radiation and some biological agents, and the effects ( often indirect ) on health and well being of the broad physical, psychological, social and cultural environment, which includes housing, urban development, land use and transport.

A comprensive study by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) in 2004 stated that there is a " compelling case that NSPs substantially and cost effectively reduce the spread of HIV among IDUs and do so without evidence of exacerbating injecting drug use at either the individual or societal level.

The use of the condom exploded in the 1980s and 1990s with the discovery of the HIV / AIDS virus but other methods of barrier contraception fell into a decline with adverse reports from the WHO regarding Nonoxynol-9-based spermicides which consequently hindered their use.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) estimates that 80 percent of the population of some Asian and African countries presently use herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) estimates that 80 percent of the population of some Asian and African countries presently use herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care.

One JH analogue, methoprene, is approved by the WHO for use in drinking water cisterns to control mosquito larvae.

The WHO also notes, though, that " inappropriate use of traditional medicines or practices can have negative or dangerous effects " and that " further research is needed to ascertain the efficacy and safety " of several of the practices and medicinal plants used by traditional medicine systems.

The reasons for variable efficacy have been discussed at length in a WHO document on BCG.

In 1964 the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence introduced " dependence " as " A cluster of physiological, behavioural and cognitive phenomena of variable intensity, in which the use of a psychoactive drug ( or drugs ) takes on a high priority.

Today, the distinction is strictly followed in some contexts, especially the social sciences and documents written by the World Health Organization ( WHO ), but in many contexts, even in some areas of social sciences, the meaning of gender has expanded to include " sex " or even to replace the latter word.

In 2003, the WHO and UNICEF published their Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, which restated that " processed-food products for infants and young children should, when sold or otherwise distributed, meet applicable standards recommended by the Codex Alimentarius Commission ", and also warned that " lack of breastfeeding — and especially lack of exclusive breastfeeding during the first half-year of life — are important risk factors for infant and childhood morbidity and mortality ".

This is in contrast to the medical definition of spinal subluxation which, according to the WHO, is a " significant structural displacement ", and therefore visible on X-rays.

" The WHO report agrees that " drinking water, with some rare exceptions, is not the major source of essential elements for humans " and is " not the major source of our calcium and magnesium intake ", yet states that demineralized water is harmful anyway.

As stated by the WHO in its 2005 World Health Report " Make Every Mother and Child Count ", the major causes of maternal deaths are: severe bleeding / hemorrhage ( 25 %), infections ( 13 %), unsafe abortions ( 13 %), eclampsia ( 12 %), obstructed labour ( 8 %), other direct causes ( 8 %), and indirect causes ( 20 %).

Paschal Mocumbi was a member of " WHO Task Forces on Health + Development ", Geneva, from 1990 to 1999 and has been a member of the " Board of International Women Health Coalition ", New York, since 1995.

On 31 March 2006, it published its " Survey of benzene levels in soft drinks ", which tested 150 products and found that four contained benzene levels above the World Health Organization ( WHO ) guidelines for drinking water.

On September 3, 2008, Sheikh Mohammad also launched a new Ramadan initiative under the name " Noor Dubai ", aiming to help the World Health Organization ( WHO ) and International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness ( IAPB ) in achieving its goals outlined in VISION 2020: the Right to Sight.

* H ( for " hydrazide ", and also the WHO standard abbreviation )

The European Union banned the sale of snus in 1992, after a 1985 WHO study concluded " oral use of snuffs of the types used in North America and western Europe is carcinogenic to humans ", but a WHO committee on tobacco has also acknowledged the evidence is inconclusive regarding health consequences for snus consumers .. Only Sweden and EFTA-member Norway are exempt from this ban.

Prevention is beginning to appear in mental health strategies, including the 2004 WHO report " Prevention of Mental Disorders ", the 2008 EU " Pact for Mental Health " and the 2011 US National Prevention Strategy.

During the period 1996 to 1998, through a series of consultations between the Programme Advisory Group ( PAG ) of WHO, the Partnership Committee, and the Task Force, the document, " Global Initiative for the Elimination of Avoidable Blindness ", was developed and adopted.

The Task Force was integrated within IAPB, becoming the " Task Force of IAPB ", and a Memorandum of Understanding to implement the " Global Initiative to Eliminate Avoidable Blindness " was signed between IAPB and WHO.

Under their joint auspices, " VISION 2020: The Right to Sight ", was officially launched by Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of WHO in Geneva on February 18, 1999, and further promoted by IAPB at the Sixth Assembly in Beijing, in September 1999.

This story can be verified by reading the article " L ' UOMO CHE ABBATTE ' VISCONTI " ( THE MAN WHO SHOT DOWN VISCONTI ), in the 3rd of March 1989 issue of the Italian magazine " Aeronautica ", article using the notes taken at the time by Eddy in his notebook, which allowed to retrace the combat and to understand that it was him the " adversary " of Visconti ( a fact completely unknown to Eddy himself till then ...).