25 Aug 2021
In Chile, more people die from cardiovascular disease than from any other cause. More than a quarter of all deaths every year – around 30 000 in total – are due to the disease. Hypertension – also known as high blood pressure – is a serious medical condition and a key risk factor for cardiovascular disease. People living with hypertension have persistently raised pressure in their...
25 Aug 2021
15 Aug 2021
Over the last thirty years, there has been increasing recognition of the need to better understand how lifestyle – including factors related to diet, nutrition and physical activity – can influence the risk of cancer, its treatment and survival. Although there has been more and more research in this area, those in the cancer world are not necessarily familiar with the role of nut...
15 Aug 2021
Publication
07 Aug 2021
With an endorsement from the WHO Director General and available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, this handbook builds on the earlier volume and helps churches to move from knowledge to action. Steering away from technical jargon, it provid...
Guide
02 Aug 2021
As part of WDF's funded project ’Early Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Prevention in Cameroon Schools’, partners RSD Institute- Yaounde, Cameroun and the Ministry of Secondary Education published a nutrition guide in 2021.This guide serves...
Publication
29 Jul 2021
This handbook supports the Practice Transformation Programme on Diabetes. It presents an overview of diabetes and describes the various services pharmacists can provide aiming at disease prevention, screening, disease state management and treatment o...
28 Jul 2021
Background Policies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted the screening, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of noncommunicable (NCD) patients while affecting NCD prevention and risk factor control. Aims To discuss how the first wa...
20 Jul 2021
We know that the combination of COVID-19, chronic diseases and poverty present a global health emergency: a ‘perfect storm’. But what does this mean in places with even greater fragility, conflict and uncertainty, especially now that funding for the humanitarian sector is at risk? Even before COVID-19 turned the world upside down, it was predicted that 168 million people worldwide would nee...
20 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021
The World Health Organization (WHO) has today released new guidance which recognize how people can actively take decisions for their own health and the health of their loved ones. The new WHO Consolidated Guideline on Self-Care Interventions for Health provides evidence-based recommendations on specific self-care interventions that can help to ensure quality health and well-being, and to pro...
13 Jul 2021
11 Jul 2021
Background: Nepal adopted the Multisectoral Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (MSAP) in 2014. Implementation of the plan has been challenging, with limited participation from non-health sectors. Objectives: Th...
07 Jul 2021
We are pleased to inform you that the WHO Country Presence Portal is officially LIVE! The Portal is a comprehensive “one-stop shop” that provides information about WHO’s work at country level. What’s in the Portal? The Portal contains information about WHO’s work in 152 countries, territories, and areas where WHO has physical presence, including: 1. ...
07 Jul 2021
05 Jul 2021
Curious to learn why tobacco is a burden to development and how tobacco control will contribute to recovery from COVID-19 and building back better?. Join our virtual high-level side event at the 2021 High Level Political Forum, under the auspices of ECOSOC. Tuesday 6 July 2021 from 19:00 to 20:30, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna, 13:00 to 14.30 EST (New York time) The s...
05 Jul 2021
28 Jun 2021
The World Health Organization is inviting you to the webinar “Building best in class chatbots during COVID-19” being held on 30 June 2021 at 15:00 CEST. WHO, governments, NGOs, academia and the private sector, will come together to discuss and share lessons learned during the pandemic. Chatbots are software programmes that interact with people over voice or text. Even before COVID-19, th...
28 Jun 2021
