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World Health Organization

Supporting the routine use of evidence during the policy-making process: a WHO checklist

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27 Sep 2024

This WHO checklist is for any organization or person supporting the routine use of evidence in&nbsp;the process of policy-making. Evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM) is essential&nbsp;for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and universal health coverage&nbsp;(UHC). Its importance is emphasized in WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of&nbsp;Work 2019–2023 (GPW13). This checklis...

PublicationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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Journal of Clinical Oncology

Food Is Love: Partnering With Families to Provide Nourishment at the End of Life

Publication

27 Sep 2024

This is an article about nutrition during the palliative care period. I think the authors summarize this best, “Within the quintessentially human belief that food is love, we discovered a unique opportunity to offer a family in crisis a few concrete tools with which to honor and affirm their roles and responsibilities as primary caretakers and good parents. By listening and aligning our medical...

PublicationHealthy AgingNutrition and food safetyUnhealthy diets

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The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Association of body mass index and survival in pediatric leukemia: a meta-analysis

Publication

27 Sep 2024

Obesity is a worldwide epidemic in children and adolescents. This meta-analysis supports a significant adverse association of overweight and obesity on survival of pediatric leukemia

PublicationCancerNutrition and food safetyUnhealthy diets

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Wiley Online Library: Pediatric Blood and Cancer

A Framework for Adapted Nutritional Therapy for Children With Cancer in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Report From the SIOP PODC Nutrition Working Group

Publication

27 Sep 2024

Clinicians caring for children with cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are often faced with managing complicated nutritional conditions alongside delivering the cancer therapy. Thus, the delivery of appropriate nutritional support based on available infrastructure is essential in order to optimize health outcomes for children with cancer located in LMICs. The Nutrition Working Grou...

PublicationCancerNutrition and food safetyUnhealthy diets

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NCD Alliance

PODCAST: The Call to Lead

Article

26 Sep 2024

In July, NCD Alliance published The Call To Lead open letter which serves as a crucial advocacy tool, urging all governments to fulfil their commitments to address the burden of NCDs. It calls on Member States to take decisive action at the Fourth UN High-level Meeting on NCDs in September 2025. Open to civil society endorsement, including both organisations and individuals, this sign-on letter wi...

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NCD Alliance

Better data for better NCD financing: Building momentum for change through the G20

Report

26 Sep 2024

Only a few countries are on track to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.4 to reduce NCD premature mortality (between the ages of 30 and 70) by one third by 2030. The WHO Global NCD Action Plan calls for adequate, predictable, sustained, efficient, and equitable financing for NCDs. Appropriate data that measures NCD spending are integral to achieving this vision. This report analyses publicl...

ReportHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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NCD Alliance

Getting Fiscal Policies Right: Lessons and recommendations across NCD risk factors

Briefs & Fact Sheets

26 Sep 2024

This report highlights some of the most common fiscal policies consistent with NCD prevention as well as measures that are recommended as highly effective in reducing the enormous strain of NCDs. NCDs weigh on economies and exacerbate poverty and food insecurity. They hinder growth and rob countries and families of human capital and opportunities. The costs of NCDs are expected to grow, which may...

Briefs & Fact SheetsHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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NCD Alliance

NCD Alliance Advocacy Priorities: 4th High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the prevention and control of NCDs in 2025

Briefs & Fact Sheets

26 Sep 2024

This policy brief informs governments on key priorities for the fourth United Nations High-Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of NCDs in 2025, to deliver on NCD targets and commitments, including for mental health and neurological conditions.

Briefs & Fact Sheets

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NCD Alliance

PODCAST: Jamaica moves on NCDs

Article

26 Sep 2024

Jamaica and other Caribbean countries are known for their leadership in advocating globally for action on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Jamaica Minister of Health and Wellness Dr. Christopher Tufton explains how and why in this episode of the NCD Alliance podcast, Voices of the health revolution. One notable success he singled out is Jamaica Moves, a programme to encourage the general public to...

ArticleHealth promotion

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Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)

Integrated approaches for women’s cancers: Opportunities to advance health for women

Report

19 Sep 2024

This publication explores the topic of integrated approaches for women’s cancers, providing insights from the perspective of those accessing care, to service delivery and across the building blocks of the health systems. It offers a picture of the state of integrated approaches for women’s cancers as of today, highlighting good practices, case studies, considerations and areas where greater at...

ReportCancerMultisectoral ActionHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)

FIP STATEMENT OF POLICY - The role of the pharmacist in establishing a future free from tobacco and nicotine dependence

Declaration

18 Sep 2024

Pharmacists have a crucial role to play in tobacco and nicotine use cessation in order to reduce the heavy burden of non-communicable diseases. This policy statement, adopted by the FIP Council in September 2024, makes recommendations for pharmacists, pharmaceutical organisations, pharmacy educators, governments, policy makers, regulatory agencies and healthcare funders to facilitate and support r...

DeclarationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesHealth promotion+1

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World Health Organization

Strengthening Primary Health Care Leadership: Global Capacity Building Course

16 Sep 2024

This course is designed to equip decision and policy-makers with the necessary skills to reorient health systems towards PHC. View a short video here about the course for more information. This comprehensive 80-hour course is divided into four sections, each focusing on key aspects of the PHC approach, its components and its application to drive health system transformation

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