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Exposing marketing tactics and strategies driving the global growth of nicotine pouches

This new report aims to help countries understand how the tobacco industry promotes nicotine pouches and how they can be effectively regulated. It highlights...

Measurement of self-reported forgone health care and its reasons: towards tackling unmet health care need

Access to needed health services remains a central challenge for achieving universal health coverage, with unmet health care need reflecting gaps in service...

Integrating wearable technology into population health monitoring systems for physical activity measurement

This report summarizes a meeting that brought together national government representatives, statistical agencies and scientific experts to review country...

World health statistics 2026: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals

The World health statistics report is the annual compilation of health and health-related indicators, which has been published by the World Health Organization...