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Journal of Patient Experience

Meaningful Engagement of People Living With Noncommunicable Diseases: Challenges and Opportunities

Article

08 Feb 2024

Meaningful engagement of people living with health conditions means actively incorporating them in all stages of health decision-making. Despite efforts by global health agencies and governments towards meaningful engagement of people living with noncommunicable diseases (PLWNCDs), many opportunities for participation are tokenistic. PLWNCDs often report feeling excluded from technical discussions...

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CLAN (Caring & Living As Neighbours)

@MATES4Kids Inaugural Activity Report

Report

31 Jan 2024

@MATES4Kids is a coalition of like-minded organisations and individuals committed to collaborative action aimed at identifying, implementing, and monitoring practical solutions to reduce the preventable mortality associated with childhood NCDs. With an initial focus on Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH), the most common adrenal condition of childhood, we are seeking to leverage achievements by t...

ReportCancerDiabetesMultistakeholder Collaboration
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Frontiers in Nutrition

Nutritional assessment and dietary intervention among survivors of childhood cancer: current landscape and a look to the future

Publication

29 Jan 2024

Over 85% of childhood cancer patients become long-term survivors. Still, cancer and its therapies are associated with a myriad of long-term complications such that childhood cancer survivors (CCS) endure excess disease burden, morbidity, and mortality throughout their lifetimes. Existing literature suggests that CCS maintain poor dietary intake and nutritional status. Thus, as childhood cancer cur...

PublicationCancerNutrition and food safetyUnhealthy diets

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World Health Organization

Trans fat

Briefs & Fact Sheets

24 Jan 2024

Key facts Trans fat, or&nbsp;trans-fatty acids (TFA), are unsaturated fatty acids that come from either industrial or natural sources. More than 278 000 deaths each year globally can be attributed to intake of industrially produced trans fat. Trans fat clogs arteries, increasing the risk of heart attacks and deaths. Industrially produced trans fat can be found in margarine, vegetable s...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancerCardiovascular DiseaseUnhealthy diets

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NCD Alliance

Ukraine Civil Society Action

Case study

22 Jan 2024

The conflict in Ukraine did not begin with the Russian invasion in 2022: since 2014, 1.5 million people had already been internally displaced in the occupied Donbas region in the east of the country on the border with Russia. However, by the end of September 2023, 3.7 million people were displaced within Ukraine and a further 5.8 million in other European countries. 9 million people had received h...

Case studyCancerCardiovascular DiseaseDiabetes

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Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control & its Protocols

The Global Case for Investment in Tobacco Control

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...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesHealth promotion+3

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World Health Organization

Cervical cancer elimination day of action 2023: Advocacy toolkit

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 SheetsCancerHealth promotionSocial determinants of health

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World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

Regional cervical cancer elimination strategy for the Eastern Mediterranean

Strategy document

14 Nov 2023

Despite being a preventable and curable disease, cervical cancer is responsible for a large burden of suffering in women around the world, especially in low- and middle-income countries. To uphold the right to health for adolescent girls and women, it is important that disparities in access to high-quality health services are addressed. In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) set a goal to...

Strategy documentCancer

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World Health Organization

Tobacco and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (‎COPD)

Publication

12 Nov 2023

This document is the&nbsp;eighth in a series of Tobacco Knowledge Summaries. This document is prepared with the objective to summarize the current evidence on the association between tobacco use and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This is also intended as an advocacy tool to widely include health care professionals, in particular pulmonologists and respirologists, in the fight for to...

PublicationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesTobacco use

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Union for International Cancer Control

Landscaping the engagement of cancer organisations in HPV vaccination

Case study

12 Nov 2023

As part of its focus on women’s cancers, specifically in supporting the implementation of the&nbsp;WHO Global Strategy for the elimination of cervical cancer, UICC engaged in a situational analysis of civil society organisations’ (CSOs) role in increasing access to, and uptake of HPV vaccination in low- and middle countries. The objective was to build on existing momentum to accelerate access...

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WHO FCTC Secretariat

Toolkit for Article 17 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Guide

31 Oct 2023

This Toolkit for Article 17 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control brings together the existing knowledge base, including years of consultations drawing out the knowledge and experience of relevant stakeholders, to guide actions on economically viable alternatives to tobacco.

GuideStrategy documentCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory Diseases+1

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World Health Organization

Breast cancer

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Oct 2023

Key facts Breast cancer caused 685 000 deaths globally in 2020. Roughly half of all breast cancers occur in women with no specific risk factors other than sex and age. Breast cancer occurs in every country in the world. Approximately 0.5–1% of breast cancers occur in men. &nbsp; Overview Breast cancer is a disease in which abnormal breast cells grow out of control and fo...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancer

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