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NCD Alliance

Delivering healthy lives and well-being for women and girls

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Jun 2019

With Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) causing two of every three deaths of women each year, action to implement Universal Health Coverage (UHC) must recognise and address sex and gender differences in NCD risk factors, care pathways and outcomes if se...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsGender, equity and human rightsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthHarmful use of alcoholHousehold and Outdoor Air PollutionPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+10

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World Health Organization (WHO)

World Health Statistics 2019: Monitoring health for the SDGs

Report

29 May 2019

World health statistics 2019 summarizes recent trends and levels in life expectancy and causes of death, and reports on the health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets. Where possible, the 2019 report disaggr...

ReportCardiovascular DiseaseCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsHousehold and Outdoor Air PollutionHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+7

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World Health Organization (WHO)

HEARTS Technical Package

Guide

17 May 2019

The HEARTS technical package provides a strategic approach to improving cardiovascular health in countries. It comprises six modules and an implementation guide. This package supports Ministries of Health to strengthen CVD management in primary healt...

GuideCardiovascular DiseaseHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health careHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+5

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Global Hearts Initiative

Fact sheet

17 May 2019

To support governments in strengthening the prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), in 2016 WHO and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) launched the Global Hearts Initiative. The Initiative compr...

Fact sheetCardiovascular DiseaseHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health carePhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+4

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Solutions for non-communicable disease prevention and control

Article

15 May 2019

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) constitute a major global health challenge, hampering nations’ economic growth and sustainable development. The four major groups of NCDs - cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes...

ArticleCardiovascular DiseaseCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsHousehold and Outdoor Air PollutionHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityUnhealthy dietsTobacco use+7

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Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance

Universal Health Coverage and Palliative Care: Do not leave those suffering behind

Report

07 May 2019

&nbsp; This report, published on the first-ever Universal Health Coverage Day, highlights the current situation in relation to hospice and palliative care and UHC and makes recommendations for working towards the greater inclusion of palliative ca...

ReportCardiovascular DiseaseCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsHousehold and Outdoor Air PollutionHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+7

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Every Woman Every Child

Saving Lives Protecting Futures: Progress Report on Global Strategy for Women and Children's Health 2010-2015

Report

07 May 2019

This report measures progress of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goals 4, 5, and 6. The report also mentions areas that require heightened mobilization and development; lessons l...

ReportCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesGender, equity and human rightsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+7

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Follow-up to the high-level meetings of the United Nations General Assembly on NCDs

Report

24 Apr 2019

The report is submitted in response to resolution WHA71.2 (2018), which “requests the Director-General to report to the Seventy-second World Health Assembly, through the Executive Board, on the outcomes of the third High-level Meeting of the Genera...

ReportCardiovascular DiseaseDiabetesCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsHousehold and Outdoor Air PollutionHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+8

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Venous Thromboembolism: A Call for Risk Assessment in all Hospitalised Patients published in Thrombosis and Haemostasis (October 2016)

Article

15 Apr 2019

Thrombosis is a major contributor to the global burden of disease because it is the pathology underlying venous thromboembolism (VTE), ischaemic heart disease, and ischaemic stroke. Collectively, these disorders account for about 1 in 4 deaths worldw...

ArticleCardiovascular DiseasePhysical inactivity

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International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)

Global Framework for Capacity Building for Non-Communicable Disease Advocacy in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Report

08 Apr 2019

This document is a summary of two pilot NCD advocacy courses, one in Thailand and one in Colombia. A Global Advisory Group engaged a Local Organizing Committee in each country to ensure the courses would meet the needs of the local stakeholders. Whil...

ReportCardiovascular DiseaseDiabetesChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+6

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International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)

Beating NCDs equitibly - Ten system requirements for health promotion and the primary prevention of NCDs

08 Apr 2019

In this paper the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) proposes that it is lack of investment in the necessary health promotion and primary prevention systems that best explains the lack of progress globally on NCDs. Here th...

CancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesHealth promotionSocial determinants of healthHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+7

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Public Health Institute (PHI)

Inspiring Youth, Growing Change: Nurturing strong minds for a healthy community

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...

ReportCardiovascular DiseaseMental Health and Neurological ConditionsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthPhysical inactivityUnhealthy diets+3

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