Coordinate toxicovigilance and toxicosurveillance
Tools provide guidance and supportive information for Member States and WHO secretariat to facilitate coordination of health ministries, health care establishments, poison information centres, and others to enhance toxicovigilance/toxicosurveillance
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- The IPCS INTOX programme [accessed 2022]
- WHO - World directory of poison centres [2021]
- WHO - Guidelines for establishing a Poison Centre [2020]
- WHO - Acute pesticide poisoning: a proposed classification tool [2008]
- FAO / WHO : Guidelines on Developing a Reporting System for Health and Environmental Incidents Resulting from Exposure to Pesticides [2009]
- WHO - Improving the availability of poisons centre services in Eastern Africa [2015]
- UNEP - Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases and Other Unintentional POPs [2013]
- ILO/WHO/UNEP - Basic analytical toxicology [1995]
- ITU/UNITAR - The Global E-waste Monitor [2020]
- WHO/UNICEF - Toolkit for monitoring and evaluating household water treatment and safe storage programmes [2012]