Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Nov 2018
This policy brief highlights the need for trade and industry authorities to recognize that the right to health is a fundamental responsibility of governments, and taking action towards coherence between trade and health policies is essential.
Report
12 Nov 2018
This synthesis summarizes the available evidence concerning the effectiveness of economic instruments (including taxes, price policies and incentives) in containing or reducing food consumption, particularly of foods high in saturated fats and other...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This publication provides information on the marketing of foods and beverages to children and the changes that have occurred in the last decade. It also examines the evolution of marketing methods and reviews some of the recent policy approaches by W...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This publication focuses on physical activity and how it can be supported through urban planning. The focus on physical activity is explained by the fact that inactivity today accounts for an increasing proportion of deaths and disability worldwide a...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This publication conveys the most recent quantitative surveillance results focusing on noncommunicable disease (NCDs)-related risk behaviors among adults from the WHO STEPwise approach to NCD risk factor surveillance (STEPS) and tobacco use among adu...
Report
12 Nov 2018
The publication conveys the quantitative surveillance results focusing on tobacco use and noncommunicable disease (NCD) related behaviours among youth (13–15 years) in Member States of the WHO South East Asian Region, namely, the Global School-base...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This document is a summary of an exploratory international meeting on regulation of marketing of alcohol products held at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) headquarters in Washington, D.C., USA, 12–13 January 2015.
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
This document provides Member States with the rationale and key strategic lines of action for comprehensive public health interventions to halt the progression of the obesity epidemic in children and adolescents.
Report
17 Oct 2018
The main goal of this resolution is to call on Member States to prioritize the prevention of obesity and diabetes and their common risk factors by establishing and/or strengthening policies and programs, integrating them into public and private healt...
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This publication explores the relationship between and the impact of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) on development and economic growth in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This document presents a background to this epidemic, including its epidemiology and main hypothetical risk factors of Chronic Kidney Disease of non-Traditional Causes (CKDnT). It also includes a description of clinical and pathological characteristi...
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This volume explores the relationship between and the impact of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) on development and economic growth in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This collection of manuscripts examines the complex interpla...
