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NCD Alliance

Signalling Virtue, Promoting Harm - Unhealthy commodity industries and COVID-19

Report

15 Sep 2020

Signalling Virtue, Promoting Harm: Unhealthy commodity industries and COVID-19, authored by the NCD Alliance and the SPECTRUM Consortium, is a preliminary exposé and analysis of tactics and strategies adopted by the unhealthy commodity industries during the COVID-19 pandemic to date. The report outlines four main strategies - pandemic-tailored marketing campaigns and stunts, corporate social resp...

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World Health Organization

Countdown to 2030 WHO report on global trans fat elimination 2020

Report

10 Sep 2020

In May 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for the global elimination of industrially produced TFA by 2023 and released the REPLACE action framework. The framework is a roadmap for countries to implement the prompt, complete and sustained elimination of industrially produced TFA from the food supply. In May 2019, WHO released six REPLACE modules, which provide practical, step-by-step...

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World Health Organization

Personal interventions and risk communication on Air Pollution

Report

04 Sep 2020

This report presents the results of an expert consultation whose objectives were to review and assess the current scientific evidence on questions related to protection measures that indivi­duals can take (or so-called personal interventions) to reduce their exposure to air pollution. Such measures include wearing respirators, using indoor portable air filters (cleaners), or avoiding cer­tain pl...

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NCD Child

Learning from NCD Child Advocacy Workshops and Projects: Building Future Policy Opportunities for Health and Education

Report

13 Aug 2020

This report focuses on the future, drawing on experiences from past NCD Child workshops and small grants. It explores the potential for increased collaboration between the health and education sectors, as key drivers of the response to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), to build a framework for future policy advocacy to address NCDs in children, adolescents, and young people.

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World Health Organization

Digital Health: A Strategy to Maintain Health Care for People Living with Noncommunicable Diseases during COVID-19

Strategy document

10 Aug 2020

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the main cause of death and disability worldwide. Effective management of these chronic conditions depends largely on continuous, responsive, accessible, and quality services and successful patient engagement and self-management. Digital health, and in particular telemedicine visits, electronic records, and electronic prescriptions, have already demonstrated hav...

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World Health Organization

Tobacco and waterpipe use increases the risk of COVID-19

Guide

03 Aug 2020

This Q&amp;A is based on, and benefitted from, the most recent evidence on COVID-19 and tobacco use. Although evidence is still accumulating on the links between COVID-19 and tobacco, waterpipe and e-products use, current research suggests a possible association between smoking and increasing severity of COVID-19 symptoms. Therefore, it is important to raise awareness in this area. There are still...

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World Health Organization

Q&A: Tobacco and COVID-19

Guide

03 Aug 2020

Questions and answers on tobacco and COVID-19.

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World Health Organization

Smoking and COVID-19: Scientific Brief

Article

03 Aug 2020

The harms of tobacco use are well-established. Tobacco causes 8 million deaths every year from cardiovascular diseases, lung disorders, cancers, diabetes, and hypertension.1 Smoking tobacco is also a known risk factor for severe disease and death from many respiratory infections.2-4 In the COVID-19 pandemic, questions have been asked about clinical outcomes for smokers, and whether they are equall...

ArticleChronic Respiratory DiseasesCommunicable diseasesTobacco use

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World Health Organization

Front Line Workers Procedures that Font Workers Can Set Things Right to Know Latest Updates Avoid Hyper-information and COVID19: Dealing with Stress

Guide

03 Aug 2020

Going to work during the Covid 19-pandemic has put frontline workers under enormous and unprecedented pressure, putting their physical and psychological integrity and social well-being at risk. Prolonged exposure to stress may have many consequences detrimental to the emotional and psychological well-being of frontline workers.

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World Health Organization

WHO statement on heated tobacco products and the US FDA decision regarding IQOS

Article

03 Aug 2020

WHO takes this opportunity to remind Member States that are Parties to the WHO Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (FCTC) of their obligations under the Convention. Heated tobacco products are tobacco products, meaning that the WHO FCTC fully applies to these products. (Decision FCTC/COP8(22)) Specifically, Article 13.4(a) obliges Parties, to prohibit "all forms of tobacco advertising, promoti...

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees & International Rescue Committee

Integrating Non-communicable Disease Care in Humanitarian Settings

Guide

01 Aug 2020

The purpose of this document is to serve as an operational guide for public health staff of humanitarian organizations providing healthcare in humanitarian settings in order to ensure that care for persons with noncommunicable disease is included and integrated within the primary health care services. This document describes the rationale and guiding principles for addressing NCDs in a humanitaria...

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World Health Organization

WHO package of essential non-communicable (PEN) disease interventions for primary health care.

Publication

07 Jul 2020

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, tend to be of long duration and are the result of a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioural factors. The main types of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (CVDs like heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – COPD and asthma) and diabet...

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