Report
08 Apr 2019
The goal of this report is to document changes resulting from local projects from the youth in the project to the built environment. It also seeks to capture an understanding of themes that can inform future health promotion and youth development wor...
Fact sheet
08 Apr 2019
This fact sheet gives an overview of the different heart diseases and the distribution of different cardiovascular disease types in males and females.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
08 Apr 2019
Policy brief on building global capacity NCD prevention in LMICs. Highlights key focus issues and defines priority actions outlined by the DELPHI Study.
08 Apr 2019
This brief ‘key messages’ paper aims to better enable IUHPE Officers, Board Members, Regional Committee Members and Members to advocate for health promotion approaches to NCD prevention in a unified way – and importantly to enable the Organizat...
Fact sheet
03 Apr 2019
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a condition in which a blood clot forms most often in the deep veins of the leg, groin or arm (known as deep vein thrombosis, DVT) and travels in the circulation, lodging in the lungs (known as pulmonary embolism, PE)....
Fact sheet
03 Apr 2019
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a common type of arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat. Because the heart beats and contracts irregularly, blood flow may slow or pool and cause the formation of a clot. A blood clot that forms as a result of AFib is an exa...
Fact sheet
03 Apr 2019
Thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot in a blood vessel. The vessel may be any vein or artery as for example, in a deep vein thrombosis (venous) or a coronary artery (arterial). The clot itself is termed a thrombus. Once formed, a clot can slow...
Article
28 Mar 2019
This comment, published in the Lancet on Strengthening a constituency-based approach to youth engagement within the NCD movement, recognises not only the need for more institutionalised engagement but also the responsibility of youth organi...
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...
Publication
14 Mar 2019
Background Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey have hosted large refugee populations, with a high pre-conflict burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Objectives We aimed to describe the ways in...
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 or...
Database
08 Mar 2019
The Oral Health Observatory (OHO) was launched in 2014 to generate standardized data on oral health. An app and online questionnaires have been developed for dental practitioners and patients to collect data on oral health behaviours, healthcare need...
