Knowledge Action Portal on NCDs

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BMJ Global Health, Global Healthcare Information Network CIC

Universal access to essential health information: accelerating progress towards universal health coverage and other SDG health targets

Publication

10 Apr 2025

Geoff Royston, Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Chris Zielinski.&nbsp;BMJ Global Health&nbsp;2020;5:e002475. https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/5/e002475 &nbsp;&nbsp;ABSTRACT: The information that people need to protect and manage their own health and the health of those for whom they are responsible is a fundamental element of an effective people-centred healthcare system. Achieving universal health coverage (UHC)...

PublicationDigital health and innovationGender, equity and human rightsHealth promotionHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing+3

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BMJ Global Health

Integrating tobacco cessation in chronic respiratory disease care: a comprehensive approach to reducing the global burden

Article

21 Mar 2025

This newly published commentary in BMJ Global Health highlights the urgent need to integrate tobacco cessation into chronic respiratory disease (CRD) care as a key strategy to reduce the global burden of CRDs.It presents a comprehensive approach that includes strengthening smoke-free environments, enhancing hospital- and community-based cessation services, protecting vulnerable populations, and le...

ArticleCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesAccess to essential medicines and services+1

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BMJ Global Health

The impact of UN high-level meetings on non-communicable disease funding and policy implementation

22 Nov 2024

Since the original UN General Assembly ‘special session’ for HIV/AIDS, there has been a proliferation of health-related high-level meetings (HLMs), including three for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and a 2019 HLM on universal health coverage that was closely aligned to the NCD framework. This paper attempts to assess the impact of these meetings in terms of funding allocations, domestic NCD...

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BMJ

New WHO guidance can support transparent and informed engagement with the private sector

Article

31 May 2024

In this BMJ opinion piece, Kent Buse and Monika Arora discuss WHO's efforts to provide guidance to countries to better assess and inform public sector engagement with the commercial sector are critical to prevent and control non-communicable diseases, and argue that much remains to be done to protect the health of people and the planet.

ArticleMultistakeholder CollaborationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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BMJ, Thorax

Availability, cost and affordability of essential medicines for chronic respiratory diseases in low-income and middle-income countries: a cross sectional study

Article

07 May 2024

Contemporary data on the availability, cost and affordability of essential medicines for chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) are missing, despite most people with CRDs living in LMICs. Cross-sectional data for seven CRD medicines in pharmacies, healthcare facilities and central medicine stores were collected from 60 LMICs in 2022–2023. Medici...

ArticleChronic Respiratory DiseasesMultisectoral ActionAccess to essential medicines and services

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BMJ Global Health

Strengthening evidence to inform health systems: opportunities for the WHO and partners to accelerate progress on non-communicable diseases

Article

10 Oct 2023

The World Health Assembly endorsed the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) 2013–2020 (NCD-GAP), now extended to 2030. An evaluation of the NCD-GAP, published in 2020, found that research has been the weakest NCD-GAP objective in terms of implementation. Implementation research, aligned with NCD-GAP, offers a pathway to accelerate progress in s...

ArticleHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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BMJ Global Health

Lessons learned from implementing the Non-Communicable Diseases Kit in a humanitarian emergency: an operational evaluation in Sudan

Article

08 Jun 2023

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a major global health concern, and their management is particularly challenging in humanitarian contexts where healthcare resources are limited. The WHO Non-Communicable Diseases Kit (WHO-NCDK) is a health system intervention targeted at the primary healthcare (PHC) level and designed to provide essential medicines and equipment for NCDs management in emergency...

ArticleEmergency preparedness, prevention and response

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BMJ

BMJ Innovations | Special supplement on social innovations for health

Case study

21 Feb 2023

The&nbsp;BMJ Innovations social innovations for health special supplement&nbsp;highlights some of the most important research work, concepts and practices in the area of social innovations in health. It also showcases the best available case examples where significant improvements in health outcomes have been made. “The purpose of this special supplement is to spur the development and maturat...

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USAID & iMMAP

The effects of COVID-19 on Non-Communicable Diseases: A Case Study of Six Countries

Case study

09 Dec 2021

Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are health conditions that cannot be transmitted from one patient to another, and usually manifest a prolonged, persistent, and slow pathology. NCDs are responsible for over 70% of all deaths, with nearly 80% of these deaths occurring in low-and middle-income countries. In addition, NCDs constitute approximately 80% of all years lived with disability globally. With...

Case studyCommunicable diseasesEmergency preparedness, prevention and response

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BMJ Global Health

Integration of non-communicable disease and HIV/AIDS management: a review of healthcare policies and plans in East Africa

Publication

04 May 2021

Background Low-income and middle-income countries are struggling to manage growing numbers of patients with chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), while services for patients with HIV infection are well established. There have been calls for integration of HIV and NCD services to increase efficiency and improve coverage of NCD care, although evidence of effectiveness remains unclear. In this...

PublicationCommunicable diseasesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care

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