Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Mar 2023
Key facts Affordable, effective and feasible strategies exist to promote, protect and restore mental health. The need for action on mental health is indisputable and urgent. Mental health has intrinsic and instrumental value and is integral...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Mar 2023
Key facts Every day in 2020, almost 800 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. A maternal death occurred almost every two minutes in 2020. Between 2000 and 2020, the maternal mortality ratio (MMR, number of...
Report
10 Mar 2023
The George Institute for Global Health China Salt Substitute and Stroke Study (SSaSS) has found replacing salt with a reduced-sodium added-potassium ‘salt substitute’ significantly lowers the risk of stroke, heart disease, and death. The study �...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
16 Feb 2023
The Global Group of Heads of State and Government for the Prevention and Control of NCDs (The NCD Presidential Group) is an informal, voluntary, collaborative arrangement of interested Heads of State and Government from WHO Member States that will co...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
08 Nov 2022
The fifth round of COSI data collection took place between 2018 and 2020 in 33 countries. In total, almost 411 000 children aged 6–9 years were measured. The full details of the fifth round of data collection are described in a report
Briefs & Fact Sheets
05 Oct 2022
Key facts Physical activity has significant health benefits for hearts, bodies and minds Physical activity contributes to preventing and managing noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes Physical activit...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
28 Sep 2022
Key facts Decent work is good for mental health. Poor working environments – including discrimination and inequality, excessive workloads, low job control and job insecurity – pose a risk to mental health. 15% of working-age adults were...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Jul 2022
Key facts 1 in every 8 people in the world live with a mental disorder Mental disorders involve significant disturbances in thinking, emotional regulation, or behaviour There are many different types of mental disorders Effective preventi...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Jul 2022
Key facts The harmful use of alcohol is a causal factor in more than 200 disease and injury conditions. Worldwide, 3 million deaths every year result from harmful use of alcohol. This represents 5.3% of all deaths. Overall, 5.1% of the glob...
Article
27 May 2022
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), which was once thought to be rare in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), is now well established in this region. The SSA region is undergoing a rapid but variable epidemiological transition fuelled by the pace of urbanization,...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
08 Apr 2022
NCDs – the world’s most prevalent and deadly diseases – represent a pandemic in their own right, but when mixed with an infectious disease outbreak, the result has been devastating to health systems and the communities they serve everywhere. Th...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
16 Mar 2022
Key facts Almost all people affected by emergencies will experience psychological distress, which for most people will improve over time. Among people who have experienced war or other conflict in the previous 10 years, one in five (22%) will...
