03 Oct 2019
SCOPE is a free internationally-recognized certification in obesity management. It equips health professionals with up to date, evidence-based obesity management resources, to better treat their patients with obesity and to excel in their c...
Report
03 Oct 2019
The atlas presents data for every country based on their current and predicted levels of obesity in children, the risk factors and the presence of government policies to tackle obesity, such as restricting the marketing of foods to children, encourag...
Report
03 Oct 2019
Alcohol consumption has long been recognized as one of the main driving factors of mortality in the Russian Federation, especially among men of working age. The introduction of various evidence-based alcohol control measures at the beginning of the 2...
01 Oct 2019
New York, 25 September 2019 - In the margins of the 74th United Nations General Assembly, the World Health Organization, together with the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the UN, organized a high level discussion on : “Political leadership and accountability on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health: Enabling healthier lives and wellbeing”, shedding light on the need...
01 Oct 2019
24 Sep 2019
The World Health Organization and the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the UN are co-organizing the meeting: "Political leadership and accountability on NCDs and mental health: Enabling healthier lives and wellbeing". The meeting will take place on Wednesday, 25th of September 2019 from 10:00-11:45 at the UN Conference Room 6 in New York. In 2015, the Uni...
24 Sep 2019
11 Sep 2019
PRIME (the Preventable Risk Integrated ModEl) is a free and easy to use scenario modelling tool that generates estimates of the number of lives that can be saved by policies that change patterns in diet, physical activity, tobacco and alcohol for a g...
Publication
01 Sep 2019
The World Heart Federation Roadmaps are central to its mission to address the global burden of cardiovascular disease. They provide comprehensive frameworks for countries and regions to identify key barriers as well as implement evidence-based polici...
Publication
01 Sep 2019
The World Heart Federation Roadmaps are central to its mission to address the global burden of cardiovascular disease. They provide comprehensive frameworks for countries and regions to identify key barriers as well as implement evidence-based polici...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
30 Aug 2019
This policy brief highlights the urgent need for Myanmar to prioritise non-communicable diseases (NCDs) within its Universal Health Coverage (UHC) agenda. It presents compelling data such as NCDs driving 59% of deaths to underline growing demographic...
Report
07 Aug 2019
The report "Offering help to quit tobacco use" tracks the status of the tobacco epidemic and interventions to combat it. The report finds that more countries have implemented tobacco control policies, ranging from graphic pack warnings and advertisin...
07 Aug 2019
Many governments are making progress in the fight against tobacco, with 5 billion people today living in countries that have introduced smoking bans, graphic warnings on packaging and other effective tobacco control measures - four times more people than a decade ago. But a new WHO report shows many countries are still not adequately implementing policies, including helping people quit tobacco, th...
07 Aug 2019
06 Aug 2019
It's been a busy first half of the year for NCD Child and its supporters! As the UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage approaches, NCD Child takes a moment to reflect on (a few of) the amazing achievements from youth NCD advocates across the globe in 2019. Read more here.
06 Aug 2019
