Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Mar 2024
Key facts Commercial determinants of health are the private sector activities that affect people’s health, directly or indirectly, positively or negatively. The private sector influences the social, physical and cultural environments through business actions and societal engagements; for example, supply chains, labour conditions, product design and packaging, research funding, lobbying,...
Guide
12 Feb 2024
ASH welcomes several groundbreaking decisions that will kick start global progress to accelerate the end of the tobacco epidemic:Human Rights Decision: encourages Parties to consider including WHO FCTC principles and implementation efforts when engaging with the United Nations human rights mechanisms.Article 2.1 on Forward Looking Measures (Tobacco Endgame) Decision: an Expert group was establishe...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Jan 2024
Even though the prevalence and absolute number of current tobacco users aged 15 years old or older has declined steadily in the 20 years since the adoption of the WHO FCTC, the journey is far from over. Over 8.7 million lives continue to be lost each year due to tobacco use, with 1.3 million of those deaths due to environmental tobacco smoke, leading to enormous economic losses. This investment ca...
Report
05 Dec 2023
This report provides an assessment of taxes applied to alcoholic beverages at the global level. It qualitatively compares their design and provides estimates of standardized metrics to compare tax levels between countries, for the first time at the global level. The assessment is based on a new database compiled by WHO which provides standardized indicators of price and tax level for beer and spir...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
17 Nov 2023
In this toolkit, find resources to support your advocacy efforts in championing the Global Strategy and the elimination of cervical cancer in your community.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Jul 2023
Key facts An estimated 1.3 billion people experience significant disability. This represents 16% of the world’s population, or 1 in 6 of us. Some persons with disabilities die up to 20 years earlier than those without disabilities. Persons with disabilities have twice the risk of developing conditions such as depression, asthma, diabetes, stroke, obesity or poor oral health. Persons...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 May 2023
This funding gap analysis, carried out in 2023, found that the current amount of resources dedicated to tobacco control is around US$ 1.2 billion, while the total amount of funding needed for full WHO FCTC implementation is US$ 9.6 billion, meaning that only 12.5% of needed funding for tobacco control is currently being allocated; this leaves us with an annual funding gap of US$ 8.4 billion....
Report
07 May 2023
This 2023 Global Progress Report on Implementation of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products is the second in the series of reports prepared since the entry into force of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products in 2018. The Global Progress Report is primarily based on the information submitted by the Parties to the Protocol in the 2023 reporting cycle...
Report
07 May 2023
The 2023 Global Progress Report on Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is the tenth in the series of reports prepared since the entry into force of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) on 27 February 2005. The report reflects a period when the world began to breathe again after the suffocating experience of COVID-19, the most serio...
Report
24 Oct 2022
Noncommunicable diseases cause nearly three quarters of deaths in the world. There are four major NCDs: cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease. Their drivers are social, environment, commercial and genetic, and their presence is global. This report highlights the true scale of the threat posed by NCDs and their risk factor...
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 estimated to have a mental disorder in 2019. Globally, an estimated 12 billion working days are lost every year to depression and anxiety at a cost...
Report
25 Sep 2022
Overweight and obesity prevalence is set to cost the global economy 3.3% of GDP by 2060, according to a new study by the World Obesity Federation and RTI International.
