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Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)

Tobacco and Human Rights Resource Hub

Database

19 Mar 2019

When people think of tobacco, they often think of it as a public health problem, but it is a human rights problem as well. The marketing and sale of tobacco violate the right to health and life of people all around the world. ASH has been working to convince both the tobacco control community and the human rights community that it is time to address tobacco through a human rights based approach. T...

DatabaseCardiovascular DiseaseCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesTobacco use

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FDI World Dental Federation

Oral Health Atlas 2nd Edition (2015): The Challenge of Oral Disease – A call for global action

Publication

08 Mar 2019

The second edition of the Oral Health Atlas highlights the extent of oral diseases worldwide and reflects on policies and strategies addressing the global burden. It presents a summary of key oral health issues, including: the impact and burden of oral diseases, such as tooth decay, periodontal disease, oral cancer and more; major risk factors and the common risk factor approach; inequalities in o...

PublicationCancerHarmful use of alcoholUnhealthy dietsTobacco use

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Medicines Patent Pool (MPP)

Exploring the Expansion of the Medicines Patent Pool’s Mandate to Patented Essential Medicines: A Feasibility Study of the Public Health Needs and Potential Impact

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2019

The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) conducted a feasibility study to assess the public health need for – and the feasibility and potential public health impact of – expanding its mandate from HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis C to patented essential medicines in other therapeutic areas. This includes medicines for different type of cancers (e.g. prostate, lung, multiple myeloma), sexual and reproduc...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCase studyReportCancerCardiovascular Disease+3

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International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)

Un appel à l’action pour prévenir les maladies non-transmissibles à partir des approches de la promotion de la santé

Briefs & Fact Sheets

25 Feb 2019

Messages clé de l’UIPES et du RÉFIPS en prévision du Sommet des Nations Unies sur les MNT à New York, en septembre 2011

Briefs & Fact SheetsCardiovascular DiseaseCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesHousehold and Outdoor Air Pollution+4

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International Union for Health Promotion and Education

Beating NCDs equitably – ten system requirements for health promotion and the primary prevention of NCDs

Strategy document

20 Feb 2019

In this position statement 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...

Strategy documentCardiovascular DiseaseCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological Conditions+5

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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Child Protection in Emergencies

Report

18 Feb 2019

This briefing gives an overview of child protection in humanitarian action, including the global interagency minimum standards for child protection. It highlights the necessary actions and available tools to ensure child protection.&nbsp;

ReportCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetes+3

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Fact Sheet: Palliative Care

Fact sheet

15 Feb 2019

Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients (adults and children) and their families who are facing problems associated with life-threatening illness. It prevents and relieves suffering through the early identification, correct assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, whether physical, psychosocial or spiritual.

Fact sheetCancer

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World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO Guidelines for the pharmacological and radiotherapeutic management of cancer pain in adults and adolescents

Guide

15 Feb 2019

The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed Guidelines for the pharmacologic and radiotherapeutic management of cancer pain in adults and adolescents to provide evidence-based guidance to initiating and managing cancer pain. The aims of these guidelines are to provide guidance to health-care providers (i.e. the end-users of these guidelines: physicians, nurses, pharmacists and caregivers) on...

GuideCancerAccess to essential medicines and services

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Improving data for decision-making: a toolkit for cervical cancer prevention and control programmes

Guide

15 Feb 2019

This publication,&nbsp;Improving data for decision-making: a toolkit for cervical cancer prevention and control programmes,&nbsp;expands the support provided to low- and middle-income countries in current global normative guidance. The toolkit presents an aligned package of operational resources for improving the availability and use of high-quality data for decision-making in cervical cancer prog...

GuideCancer

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Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Guía alimentaria para la población uruguaya

Guide

07 Feb 2019

The Food Guide for the Uruguayan population is an informative material that aims to promote a healthy, balanced and pleasurable diet. It was developed with the support of the Pan American Health Organization, UNICEF and FAO.

GuideCardiovascular DiseaseDiabetesCancerChronic Respiratory Diseases+1

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World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO GCM/NCD Working Group on the Alignment of International Cooperation with National NCD Plans (Working Group 3.2)

Report

25 Jan 2019

This final report is the outcome of the Working Group convened by the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (GCM/NCD) to consider the alignment of international cooperation with national NCD plans (Working Group 3.2, 2016–2017). The Working Group was formed under objective 3 (action 3.2) of the GCM/NCD work plan to provide a forum for identif...

ReportCardiovascular DiseaseCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological Conditions+5

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World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO GCM/NCD Working Group on the Inclusion of NCDs in other Programmatic Areas (Working Group 3.1)

Report

25 Jan 2019

This final report is the outcome of the Working Group convened by the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (GCM/NCD) to recommend ways and means of encouraging Member States and non-State actors to promote the inclusion of the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases within responses to HIV/AIDS and programmes for sexual and reproduc...

ReportCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological Conditions+5

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