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World Heart Federation (WHF)

World Heart Federation Cholesterol Roadmap 2022

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24 Apr 2022

The World Heart Federation Roadmaps are central to its mission to address the global burden of cardiovascular disease. They provide comprehensive frameworks for countries and regions to identify key barriers as well as implement evidence-based policies and health system strategies to prevent premature cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.&nbsp;The updated WHF Roadmap on Cholesterol (2022) review...

PublicationCardiovascular DiseaseHealth Literacy DevelopmentHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

Toolkit for developing a multisectoral action plan for noncommunicable diseases

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20 Apr 2022

This toolkit is a "how to" guide for developing, implementing and evaluating a multisectoral action plan for prevention and control of NCDs. It is targeted at policy-makers, planners and programme managers, and is intended to help countries, provinces and cities meet the requirements for achieving global and national NCD targets and the Sustainable Development Goals. The toolkit takes the user thr...

GuidePublicationMultisectoral ActionMultistakeholder CollaborationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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Health Action International (HAI), University of Geneva University of Geneva and Geneva University Hospitals

Management of type 1 diabetes in low- and middle- income countries: Comparative health system assessments in Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Peru and Tanzania

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09 Apr 2022

Abstract Aims: To describe and compare the health system responses for type 1 diabetes in Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Peru and Tanzania. Methods:&nbsp;The Rapid Assessment Protocol for Insulin Access, a multi-level as- sessment of the health system, was implemented in Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Peru and Tanzania using document reviews, site visits and interviews to assess the delivery of care and access to...

PublicationDiabetesMultisectoral ActionMultistakeholder CollaborationAccess to essential medicines and services

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Journal of Migration and Health

Chronic NCD care in crises: A qualitative study of global experts’ perspectives on models of care for hypertension and diabetes in humanitarian settings

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07 Apr 2022

Background The high and rising global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is reflected among crisis-affected populations. People living with NCDs are especially vulnerable in humanitarian crises. Limited guidance exists to support humanitarian actors in designing effective models of NCD care for crisis-affected populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We aimed to synthesi...

PublicationCardiovascular DiseaseDiabetes

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The Lancet: Health Policy

NCD Countdown 2030: efficient pathways and strategic investments to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4 in low-income and middle-income countries

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26 Mar 2022

Most countries have made little progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.4, which calls for a reduction in premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by a third from 2015 to 2030. In this Health Policy paper, we synthesise the evidence related to interventions that can reduce premature mortality from the major NCDs over the next decade and that are feasi...

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World Health Organization

Improving diabetes outcomes for all, a hundred years on from the discovery of insulin: report of the Global Diabetes Summit

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12 Jan 2022

To mark the centenary of the discovery of insulin, and with the support of the University of Toronto, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of Canada co-hosted a Global Diabetes Summit on 14 April 2021. The Summit aimed to raise awareness of diabetes as a global challenge, and to highlight what is being done — and what more needs to be done — to scale-up prevention and treatme...

PublicationDiabetesHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityUnhealthy diets

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World Health Organization

Saving lives, spending less: the case for investing in noncommunicable diseases

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13 Dec 2021

A new World Health Organization report shows that close to seven million deaths could be prevented by 2030, if low and lower-middle income countries were to make an additional investment of less than a dollar per person per year in the prevention and treatment of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).&nbsp;Saving lives, spending less: the case for investing in noncommunicable diseases, focuses on 76 low...

PublicationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

It’s time to invest in cessation: the global investment case for tobacco cessation

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19 Nov 2021

The Global Investment Case for Tobacco Cessation outlines the health and economic benefits from investing in evidence-based interventions to support tobacco cessation in low- and middle-income countries. The goal is to provide policymakers, donors, advocates, and other relevant stakeholders with a sound and evidence-based economic case for investing in and scaling up these measures.

PublicationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingTobacco use

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World Health Organization

WHO global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco use 2000-2025, fourth edition

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19 Nov 2021

Progress in reducing tobacco use is a key indicator for measuring countries’ efforts to implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control – target 3.a under the Sustainable Development Goals agenda. Countries have adopted this indicator to report progress also towards the tobacco reduction target under the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases 20...

PublicationCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesTobacco use

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NCD Alliance

Position Statement: Resilient systems for ‘building back better’

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19 Nov 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated more than ever the need for global and national leadership in supporting resilient health and other systems, and the reality that health, economy and better societies are inextricably linked. Also important is the mobilisation of non-health sectors through polices and programmes that facilitate a ‘whole-of-society’ and ‘whole-of-government’ response....

PublicationCommunicable diseasesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Keeping the 100-year-old promise: making insulin access universal

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12 Nov 2021

The year 2021 marks 100 years since the momentous discovery of insulin in 1921, which marked a turning point in care for those with diabetes. Over the past century, better health outcomes for people living with diabetes have been incrementally achieved. However, despite the wishes of the discoverers of insulin, access to insulin and associated devices, and diabetes care more broadly, remains limit...

PublicationDiabetesAccess to essential medicines and services

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World Health Organization

Community engagement: a health promotion guide for universal health coverage in the hands of the people 

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12 Nov 2021

WHO has defined community engagement as “a process of developing relationships that enable stakeholders to work together to address health-related issues and promote well-being to achieve positive health impact and outcomes”. There are undeniable benefits to engaging communities in promoting health and wellbeing. At its core, community engagement enables changes in behaviour, environments, pol...

PublicationHealth promotion

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