Below are selected new WHO publications (with thanks to WHO Press). All are available for free download at the URLs shown.

WHO Guidelines for Screening and Treatment of Precancerous Lesions for Cervical Cancer Prevention

This guideline provides recommendations for strategies for a screen-and-treat programme. It is intended primarily for policy-makers, managers, programme officers, and other professionals in the health sector who have responsibility for choosing strategies for cervical cancer prevention, at country, regional and district levels.

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/94830/1/9789241548694_eng.pdf

WHO Recommendations for Augmentation of Labour

The goal of the present guideline is to consolidate the guidance for effective interventions that are needed to reduce the global burden of prolonged labour and its consequences. The primary target audience includes health professionals responsible for developing national and local health protocols and policies, as well as obstetricians, midwives, nurses, general medical practitioners, managers of maternal and child health programmes, and public health policy-makers in all settings.

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2011/9789241501156_eng.pdf

Clinical Practice Handbook for Safe Abortion

This handbook is oriented to providers who already have the requisite skills and training necessary to provide safe abortion and/or treat complications of unsafe abortion.

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/97415/1/9789241548717_eng.pdf

Psychological First Aid: Facilitator’s Manual for Orienting Field Workers

The instructions and materials in this manual are for a half-day orientation (4 hours excluding breaks) to prepare helpers to support people recently affected by very stressful events. This facilitator’s manual is to be used together with the Psychological First Aid: Guide for Field Workers.

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/102380/1/9789241548618_eng.pdf

eHealth and innovation in women’s and children’s health: a baseline review

This report shows how, on a daily basis, eHealth innovations are improving access to care and assisting women to take control of their own health. Advances such as these are providing pregnant women, mothers and young children with better health care services and advice.

http://www.who.int/goe/publications/baseline/en/

Atlas of eHealth Country Profiles 2013: eHealth and Innovation in Women’s and Children’s Health

This publication is based on the 2013 WHO/ITU joint survey that explored the use of eHealth for women’s and children’s health in countries that are covered by the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health (CoIA).

http://www.who.int/goe/publications/atlas_2013/en/

Best wishes,

Neil