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World Health Organization

Countdown to 2030 WHO report on global trans fat elimination 2020

Report

10 Sep 2020

In May 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for the global elimination of industrially produced TFA by 2023 and released the REPLACE action framework. The framework is a roadmap for countries to implement the prompt, complete and sustained elimination of industrially produced TFA from the food supply. In May 2019, WHO released six REPLACE modules, which provide practical, step-by-step...

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World Health Organization

Digital Health: A Strategy to Maintain Health Care for People Living with Noncommunicable Diseases during COVID-19

Strategy document

10 Aug 2020

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the main cause of death and disability worldwide. Effective management of these chronic conditions depends largely on continuous, responsive, accessible, and quality services and successful patient engagement and self-management. Digital health, and in particular telemedicine visits, electronic records, and electronic prescriptions, have already demonstrated hav...

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World Health Organization

Front Line Workers Procedures that Font Workers Can Set Things Right to Know Latest Updates Avoid Hyper-information and COVID19: Dealing with Stress

Guide

03 Aug 2020

Going to work during the Covid 19-pandemic has put frontline workers under enormous and unprecedented pressure, putting their physical and psychological integrity and social well-being at risk. Prolonged exposure to stress may have many consequences detrimental to the emotional and psychological well-being of frontline workers.

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees & International Rescue Committee

Integrating Non-communicable Disease Care in Humanitarian Settings

Guide

01 Aug 2020

The purpose of this document is to serve as an operational guide for public health staff of humanitarian organizations providing healthcare in humanitarian settings in order to ensure that care for persons with noncommunicable disease is included and integrated within the primary health care services. This document describes the rationale and guiding principles for addressing NCDs in a humanitaria...

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World Health Organization

WHO package of essential non-communicable (PEN) disease interventions for primary health care.

Publication

07 Jul 2020

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, tend to be of long duration and are the result of a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioural factors. The main types of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (CVDs like heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – COPD and asthma) and diabet...

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ASH & AATCLC File Lawsuit Against FDA

Article

03 Jun 2020

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 17, 2020 – Today, The African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC) and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) held a virtual press conference announcing their joint complaint against the FDA, represented by Pollock Cohen, LLP. The complaint requests that the court compel the FDA to fulfill its mandate to take action on FDA’s own conclusions that it would ben...

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World Health Organization

HEARTS D: diagnosis and management of type 2 diabetes

Guide

27 Apr 2020

This new HEARTS – D module on Diagnosis and management of type 2 diabetes complements and expands the diabetes section of the HEARTS Technical Package developed for use in primary health-care facilities to improve cardiovascular health. This module brings together WHO guidance on diagnosis, classification and management of type 2 diabetes in one document. It is aligned with the WHO Package of Es...

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NCD Alliance

Bridging the Gap on NCDs: From global promises to local progress - Policy brief

Briefs & Fact Sheets

12 Feb 2020

The policy brief highlights the gaps in the first decade of the NCD response and what is lacking to reach the global targets for NCD reduction. The policy brief also underscores barriers to progress according to the NCD Alliance's global network of people living with NCDs, advocates, campaigners and experts through survey data ,&nbsp;WHO data, and peer reviewed literature.&nbsp; &nbsp;

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Associacao de Diabetes Juvenil

Decentralized COVID-19 measures in Brazil were ineffective to protect people with diabetes

Article

28 Jan 2020

Background and aims: COVID-19 severity and mortality are elevated in individuals with diabetes. During the pandemic, interventions recommended globally for people with diabetes were to keep blood glucose on target whilst staying at home to curb the spread of the virus. In Brazil, similar measures were proposed. The aim of our observational study was to assess whether these measures achieved their...

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HRIDAY

India Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs

Guide

12 Dec 2019

The India Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs has been developed as a result of the Community Conversations and Regional Consultations, involving voices of people with lived experiences, conducted between 2017-2018. The development of this Advocacy Agenda was supported by the Healthy India Alliance, which prioritises 'putting people first' in the NCD response. The Advocacy Agenda is guided...

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Health taxes: a primer

Fact sheet

18 Nov 2019

Health taxes: a primer summarizes the evidence on the health and economic impact of health taxes (those imposed on products with a negative public health impact like tobacco, alcohol, sugar-sweetened beverages and fossil fuels). These taxes result in healthier populations and generate revenues for the budget even in the presence of illicit trade/evasion.&nbsp;

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World Obesity

Global Atlas on Childhood Obesity

Report

03 Oct 2019

The atlas presents data for every country based on their current and predicted levels of obesity in children, the risk factors and the presence of government policies to tackle obesity, such as restricting the marketing of foods to children, encouragement of physical activity and nation guidelines for healthy diets. Based on these factors the Atlas gives each country a score for their childhood ob...

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