World health organization
Working for a brighter, healthier future: How WHO improves health and promotes well-being for the world’s adolescents, Third edition
Report
14 May 2026
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
25 Feb 2019
This review examined the approaches to the prevention of chronic diseases (also referred to as non-communicable diseases) that have been developed and used in health education and health promotion. The study assumed that many of the causal factors considered for the prevention of diseases and the efforts required to change them apply to both non-communicable diseases and communicable diseases.