Action on Smoking and Health
Tobacco Endgame Fact Sheets
Briefs & Fact Sheets
23 May 2024
Tobacco Endgame Guides, Talking Points, and Fact Sheets
Briefs & Fact Sheets
23 May 2024
Tobacco Endgame Guides, Talking Points, and Fact Sheets
Guide
19 May 2024
In line with the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Response Framework (ERF), the operational manual on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in all-hazards emergency preparedness and response provides technical guidance and tools for emergency managers, implementers and policy-makers tasked with emergency response and preparedness, with the aim of ensuring that NCD interventions are included in...
Case study
16 May 2024
This 2024 publication consolidates the global evidence on implementation and is a guide on the “how” of PHC, combining, as it does, best practices, and the tacit knowledge that countries have generated, with more formal research and analysis. The Primer is organized in three parts. Part I explains the PHC approach, its history, core concepts and rationale, and draws out lessons for transformat...
Guide
15 May 2024
This comprehensive Facilitator’s Guide supports trainers, programme managers, and field staff in equipping community health volunteers (CHVs) to deliver age-inclusive, community-based health support. Focused on older populations, it provides structured modules, facilitation tips, and practical exercises covering topics such as outreach, basic screening, NCD prevention, mental health support, and...
Guide
28 Mar 2024
This practical guide aims to support community advocacy on NCDs, translating into practice the concept of health equity. The OBJECTIVES of this practical guide are to support NCD advocates to: Conduct a detailed assessment of the state of health equity on NCDs engaging with communities, people living with NCDs and key stakeholders. Produce an NCD Equity Report using the assessment findi...
Guide
16 Mar 2024
Immunization is a critical component of PHC and offers a clear entry point for multisectoral efforts to strengthen PHC more broadly. Technical work has been developed in partnership with and aligned to the Immunization Agenda 2030 Strategic Priority on PHC/UHC, describing potential areas of synergies between immunization and PHC. The Immunization for PHC Framework for action is a set of...
Guide
06 Mar 2024
This practical guide aims to support community advocacy on NCDs, translating into practice the concept of health equity.
Guide
12 Feb 2024
ASH welcomes several groundbreaking decisions that will kick start global progress to accelerate the end of the tobacco epidemic:Human Rights Decision: encourages Parties to consider including WHO FCTC principles and implementation efforts when engaging with the United Nations human rights mechanisms.Article 2.1 on Forward Looking Measures (Tobacco Endgame) Decision: an Expert group was establishe...
Guide
29 Jan 2024
This guide provides essential information to assist school staff in supporting students with diabetes. It covers topics such as understanding diabetes, the role of insulin, blood glucose monitoring, managing acute complications, promoting healthy eating, encouraging physical activity, addressing special situations, debunking common myths, and recognizing chronic complications.
Guide
29 Jan 2024
This essential guide provides fundamental information for parents and caregivers of children with diabetes. Developed by ADJ Diabetes Brasil, it covers everything from understanding diabetes, its types, and symptoms to practical guidance on blood glucose monitoring, insulin administration, proper nutrition, emergency management, and the importance of physical activity. It also provides strategies...
Guide
05 Dec 2023
The WHO technical manual on alcohol tax policy and administration is a practical guide and a call to action for policymakers and others involved in alcohol tax policymaking to develop strong policies considering each country's unique market structure, tax administration capacity, and political economy. It also includes country case studies and summaries of evidence on alcohol tax globally.
Guide
13 Nov 2023
Governments across the globe are increasingly facing intersecting social, political, economic and environmental challenges. Among these are social inequalities that impact health dramatically. Health is created and destroyed by many different factors in society and in the environment, beyond an individual's behaviour and direct control. The growing evidence base supporting the call for social and...