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WHO, ITU

Going digital for noncommunicable diseases

Publication

30 Oct 2024

Digital technologies hold great promise for improving the delivery of health services and helping countries to progress towards universal health coverage. This report summarizes initial systematic work to make the economic case for implementing a set of evidence-based digital health interventions for NCD prevention and management, including telemedicine, mobile health and health chatbots. It also...

PublicationDigital health and innovationPrimary health care

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British Medical Journal

Sex and gender reporting in global health: new editorial policies

Article

25 Oct 2024

This editorial, written by Sanne Peters and Robyn Norton of The George Institute, argues that funding agencies and journal publishers must require sex and gender-specific reporting.

ArticleGender, equity and human rights

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Innovation through Gender/Gendered Innovations

Gender Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment

Article

25 Oct 2024

Gendered Innovations&nbsp;harness the creative power of sex, gender, and intersectional analysis for innovation and discovery. Considering these approaches may add valuable dimensions to research. They may take research in new directions. For a summary, see&nbsp;Sex and Gender Analysis Improves Science and Engineering&nbsp;(Nature, 2019). See also&nbsp;Gendered Innovations 2: How Inclusive Analysi...

ArticleGender, equity and human rights

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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

The obstetrician's role in preventing cardiometabolic diseases

Publication

25 Oct 2024

This piece explores the role of the obstetricians in contributing to her patients' lifelong wellbeing and minimizing their NCD risk long after pregnancy.

PublicationGender, equity and human rightsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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WHO Regional Office for Europe

Why using a gender approach can accelerate noncommunicable disease prevention and control in the WHO European Region

Publication

25 Oct 2024

Noncommunicable diseases (‎NCDs)‎ are the main causes of ill health for women and men in the WHO European Region. NCD indicators in all countries reveal important differences between men and women across the life-course. Biology is important in shaping these differences, but it does not explain them all. Gender norms and roles put women and men at different levels of exposure and vulnerability...

PublicationGender, equity and human rightsHealth promotionHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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The Lancet

Early-life prevention of non-communicable diseases

Report

25 Oct 2024

Report advocates for minimizing &nbsp;in-utero and childhood risks for NCDs as an imperitive for reducing poverty and gendered inequalities.

ReportGender, equity and human rightsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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Centre of Excellence for CRVS

Knowledge Briefs on Genders and CRVS

Report

25 Oct 2024

Policy brief by Centre of Excellence for CRVS and Le Centre D'Excellence describing how civil record-keeping disproportionately excludes women and girls, and how women can be instrumental in correcting this problem.

ReportGender, equity and human rightsSocial determinants of health

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Institute for Alcohol Studies and Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems

Women and Alcohol: Key Issues

Report

25 Oct 2024

Report by the Institute for Alcohol Studies and Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems summarising and expanding on a series of seminars

ReportMental Health and Neurological ConditionsGender, equity and human rightsHarmful use of alcohol

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World health Organization

Gender-Responsive Tobacco Control: Evidence and Options for Policies and Programmes

Publication

25 Oct 2024

The purpose of this report is in response to a request from the Seventh session of the Conference of Parties (COP7) to review the relationship between gender and tobacco, and provide evidence for gender-responsive tobacco control. Globally more men than women use tobacco, and sex-disaggregated data on the burden of morbidity associated with tobacco use shows a significantly (three times) higher bu...

PublicationChronic Respiratory DiseasesMeaningful Engagement of People with Lived ExperiencesGender, equity and human rightsHealth promotion+1

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Alzheimer’s Disease International

Women and Dementia: A Global Research Review

Report

25 Oct 2024

​​​​Report reviewing the published, English-language research literature on issues affecting women in relation to dementia from an international perspective.&nbsp;

ReportMental Health and Neurological Conditions

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The George Institute for Global Health

Women's Health through Life Course and Empowerment

Dialogue

25 Oct 2024

Summary of a discussion in Beijing among national policymakers and experts to share experiences of empowerment and women's health throughout the life course.

DialogueGender, equity and human rightsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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The George Institute for Global Health

SMARThealth Pregnancy: Improving women’s life-long health in rural India

25 Oct 2024

Every year, millions of women die from heart disease, stroke and complications of diabetes, with the greatest number of deaths occurring in low-resource settings, such as parts of rural India. The SMARThealth&nbsp;Pregnancy programme aims to help community health workers identify women at risk and manage their healthcare in order to reduce premature deaths.&nbsp;

Access to essential medicines and servicesGender, equity and human rightsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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