World Health Organization
Reporting on the world’s biggest killers: a journalist’s guide to covering noncommunicable diseases
Guide
08 Oct 2025
World Health Organization (WHO)
29 May 2019
This technical guide is intended to improve implementation research for NCD prevention and control. It has been designed primarily for health policy makers, implementers and academia who are responsible for NCD prevention and control at national and subnational level. This guide covers the four main steps necessary for implementation research: identification; adaptation; evaluation; and scale up of policy or intervention.