Report
17 Aug 2020
Addressing the challenge of NCDs and road safety requires national and city authorities to work closely together. This report is a call for city leaders to rise to the challenge and show the world how local action can help solve global health problems.
Publication
07 Aug 2020
Reflections on 15 WHO commemorative health days prepared to promote conversations in churches on different health matters, with forewords from the WCC General Secretary and WHO Director General. Each reflection is less than a 1000 words and can be incorporated in various church activities. Each entry provides basic scientific information, global bottlenecks, biblical reflection and possible action...
Article
03 Aug 2020
There is no safe level of exposure to second-hand smoke Following the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, 15 countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region took a bold decision to ban waterpipe use temporarily in public places. This is in addition to the two countries that had already banned it previously, making the total number of countries that have banned waterpipe use in public p...
Article
03 Jun 2020
WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 17, 2020 – Today, The African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC) and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) held a virtual press conference announcing their joint complaint against the FDA, represented by Pollock Cohen, LLP. The complaint requests that the court compel the FDA to fulfill its mandate to take action on FDA’s own conclusions that it would ben...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
06 May 2020
The global crisis of COVID-19 is deepening pre-existing inequalities, exposing the extent of exclusion and highlighting that work on disability inclusion is imperative. People with disabilities—one billion people— are one of the most excluded groups in our society and are among the hardest hit in this crisis in terms of fatalities.
Guide
18 Mar 2020
A guide to preventing and addressing social stigma for governments, media and local organisations working on the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Mar 2020
Key Facts Community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes are usually voluntary and characterized by community members pooling funds to offset the cost of healthcare. Despite much hope in these systems, evidence suggests the impact of CBHI on financial protection and access to needed health care are moderate for those enrolled. Most CBHI schemes have low participation levels and the poor...
Publication
18 Feb 2020
Background More than 5.5 million Syrian refugees have fled violence and settled in mostly urban environments in neighboring countries. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region accounts for 6% of the global population but 25% of the population are ‘of concern’ to the UN Refugee Agency. In addition to large amounts of forced migration, the region is also undergoing an epidemiologic tran...
Publication
06 Jan 2020
Background The growing burden of non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries presents substantive challenges for health systems. This is also the case in fragile, post-conflict and post-Ebola Sierra Leone, where NCDs represent an increasingly significant disease burden (around 30% of adult men and women have raised blood pressure). To date, documentation of health system chall...
Report
12 Nov 2019
This scoping review synthesizes the global evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being, with a specific focus on the WHO European Region Over the past two decades, there has been a major increase in research into the effects of the arts on health and well-being, alongside developments in practice and policy activities in different countries across the WHO European...
Report
18 Jun 2019
This economic analysis makes the case for investing in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Armenia. Through three comprehensive analyses—economic burden, intervention costing, and return on investment—the report demonstrates the significant human and economic toll of NCDs, which accounted for 6.5% of Armenia’s GDP in 2017. Key findings: 362.7 bill...
08 Apr 2019
In this paper the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) proposes that it is lack of investment in the necessary health promotion and primary prevention systems that best explains the lack of progress globally on NCDs. Here the IUHPE articulates its position regarding ten system requirements for strengthening health promotion as a primary mechanism for meeting the WHO Nonco...
