World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations specialized agency for health. Topics often include databases for data on health topics by country.

    
 

Topics often include databases for data on health topics by country.

General health information and data about: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

South East Regional Office of the World Health Organization includes indicators, publications, and links to gender resources in the region. The South East Region includes: Bangladesh, Bhutan, DPR Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste.

GWH brings attention to the ways in which biological and social differences between women and men affect health and the steps needed to achieve health equity. Includes links to major NGO's and regional gender and health issues.

""The first-ever World Health Organization (WHO) study on domestic violence reveals that intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence in women's lives -- much more so than assault or rape by strangers or acquaintances." The full text of the 2005 report (with data and quotes) is accompanied by fact sheets with information about women's health and domestic violence in Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Samoa, and several other countries." (LII)