Publication
05 Apr 2024
This guide focuses on self-care and healthy lifestyle choices to support us to achieve healthy ageing. This includes our participation in holding our government accountable for its commitments and to be engaged in decision making about health and care services in our community and beyond. This guide is for everyone interested in achieving healthy ageing. We hope it will be useful for people liv...
Strategy document
04 Apr 2024
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is defined to mean that everyone, everywhere, should have access to the health services (health promotion, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment) they need without risking falling into financial hardship. UHC is a major cornerstone of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is the backbone of robust health systems that are needed to deliver greater global...
Publication
04 Apr 2024
Explore how the innovative pharmaceutical industry is partnering to ensure innovation and access contribute to global health progress and improve lives everywhere in this report.The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) explicitly strive to engage the private sector in addressing the world’s most pressing challenges and emphasize the importance of cross-sector collaborations. Universal Health Cov...
Publication
03 Apr 2024
To ensure effective Indigenous representation and guidance to develop GACD Indigenous research initiatives, the GACD’s Indigenous Population Working Group (IPWG) have prepared a statement to guide future research activities to- a) Promote the application of implementation science in Indigenous contexts; b) Co-design research with Indigenous Peoples that align...
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...
Publication
26 Mar 2024
This publication aims to provide community advocates with an introduction to what health equity means in the context of NCDs. It also aims to illustrate how a health equity lens can strengthen the NCD response, providing advocacy recommendations to address common barriers to equity and meet the needs of underserved people impacted by NCDs. The Framework can be used together with the accompanyin...
Report
20 Mar 2024
Today, no country in the world is on track to reach the target to ‘halt the rise’ of obesity prevalence by 2030, as set in 2013 by the World Health Organization and approved by all governments. In reality, rather than a zero increase, the World Obesity Atlas 2022 (World Obesity Federation, 2022) estimated that global obesity is likely to have doubled over this time. By 2035, over half the w...
Publication
20 Mar 2024
A report providing a comprehensive overview of obesity rates and trends worldwide, with clear projections as to how the trajectory of the fallout from obesity is likely to affect the world.
Publication
10 Mar 2024
HelpAge's Caregiver Manual - HelpAge International is a basic guide for families and volunteers providing care and support for older people. It includes: An overview of who this guide is for Section 1: Guide for the organisers, managers or trainers of volunteer caregivers Section 2: Guide for caregiving for older people with care needs Assisting with mobility Assisting w...
Guide
06 Mar 2024
This practical guide aims to support community advocacy on NCDs, translating into practice the concept of health equity.
Database
01 Mar 2024
To make the Decade of Healthy Ageing a success, everyone working to improve the lives of older people, their families, and their communities requires equitable and democratic access to a large amount of knowledge. To meet this need, the Platform is designed to be an inclusive, collaborative space where all knowledge relevant for the Decade can be accessed, shared, and interacted with in one place...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
31 Jan 2024
In February 2022, the @MATES4Kids movement - a coalition of like-minded organisations and individuals committed to collaborative action aimed at identifying, implementing, and monitoring practical solutions to reduce the preventable mortality associated with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) - prepared a briefing paper for WHO outlining the ambitious goals and three objectives proposed to suppo...
