Briefs & Fact Sheets
02 Jan 2019
The issue brief highlights key aspects of using competition law to promote access to health technologies from UNDP’s landmark publication “Using Competition Law to Promote Access to Health Technologies: A guidebook for low- and middle-income countries.”
Guide
02 Jan 2019
In response to the high-level political calls to action and decisions taken by ECOSOC and the COP, UNDP and the Convention Secretariat have jointly produced this report to capture emerging lessons learned from practical experience and to provide recommendations for further action to facilitate integrating the WHO FCTC into national development plans (NDPs) and the UNDAFs that support them.
Guide
01 Jan 2019
Cancers are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, responsible for 18.1 million new cases and 9.6 million deaths in 2018. Pain is experienced by 55% of patients undergoing anti-cancer treatment and by 66% of patients who have advanced, metastatic, or terminal disease. This can be relieved in most cases through medicines and other treatments. The World Health Organizati...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
28 Dec 2018
This brief underlines the need to mainstream disability into all efforts to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment (SDG 5); highlights key issues for ending poverty (SDG 1) and ensuring healthy lives (SDG 3) for women and girls with disabilities; and calls for closing data gaps on gender and disability.
Article
28 Dec 2018
This review article discusses the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) in support of a total diet approach to achieving diet and health goals, especially as they relate to the obesity epidemic. However, some scientists and organizations have identified one food, food group, or nutrient as the cause of the obesity epidemic and recommend that simply reducing that food/food group/nutrient will solv...
Report
28 Dec 2018
This document provides guidance to city leaders in establishing a framework for the management, control and optimization of the Smart Sustainable City environment as a laboratory for innovation and urban simulation.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
17 Dec 2018
This publication outlines the impact of crises on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and why people living with NCDs are particularly vulnerable. It was originally produced and shared as a briefing for a bootcamp on NCDs held by the IFRC, Danish Red Cross, NCDFREE and the University of Copenhagen.
Report
13 Dec 2018
This report aims to build the evidence base on children and climate change by focusing on the major climate-related risks; children’s current and future exposure to these risks; and the policies required to protect children from these risks.
Report
12 Dec 2018
This publication includes analysis and lessons on each of the 16 countries and the one sub region that took part in the Reviews. The exercise, which brought together UN and World Bank Group staff, systematically reviewed the country situation, identified the bottlenecks to MDG attainment, and proposed potential solutions to be implemented to accelerate progress. Since many MDGs have been absorbed...
Declaration
06 Dec 2018
The Global Conference on Primary Health Care in Astana, Kazakhstan in October 2018 endorsed a new declaration emphasizing the critical role of primary health care around the world. The declaration aims to refocus efforts on primary health care to ensure that everyone everywhere is able to enjoy the highest possible attainable standard of health. The new declaration has renewed political commitm...
Report
06 Dec 2018
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases and their risk factors are an increasing public health and development challenge in Uzbekistan. This report provides evidence through three analyses that NCDs reduce economic output and discusses potential options in response, outlining details of their relative returns on investment....
Report
06 Dec 2018
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases and their risk factors are an increasing public health and development challenge in Belarus. This report provides evidence that NCDs reduce economic output and discusses potential options in response. An economic burden analysis shows that economic losses from NCDs (direct and indirect...
