Briefs & Fact Sheets
27 Nov 2013
As a consequence of urbanization and shifts in consumption patterns, South Africa (SA) suffers from high hypertension rates previously prevalent in resource-rich settings and wealthier populations. Trends over time in SA reveal both a growing prevale...
Report
27 Nov 2013
This report was prepared with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation (grant no. 2012 THS 317) as part of the Rockefeller Transforming Health Systems Initiative, Supporting the Development of Regional Positions on Health in All Policies and Identif...
04 Mar 2013
OverviewThese tools of the WHO Package of Essential Noncommunicable Diseases Interventions (WHO PEN) support implementation of very cost effective interventions through an integrated approach.Implementation of WHO PEN is a key component of the object...
Publication
28 Feb 2013
The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health: Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a new investment framework to achieve dramati...
Guide
16 Jun 2012
This technical manual aims to help governments improve health and increase revenues by identifying a set of “best practices” for tobacco taxation. It documents governments’ existing approaches to tobacco taxation, discusses barriers to using to...
Publication
13 May 2011
This new volume of the IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention in Tobacco Control presents a critical review and evaluation of the evidence by 25 international experts from twelve countries on the economics, epidemiology, public policy and tobacco contro...
Declaration
27 Nov 2010
The Adelaide Statement on Health in All Policies is to engage leaders and policy-makers at all levels of government—local, regional, national and international. It emphasizes that government objectives are best achieved when all sectors include hea...
Strategy document
28 Apr 2010
World Health Assembly, 63 (2010). Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. World Health Organization. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/3087
Publication
28 Feb 2010
Several publications by the WHO regional office of Americas featuring tobacco control country profiles
Declaration
28 Apr 2008
World Health Assembly, 61 (2008). Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases: implementation of the global strategy. World Health Organization. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/23529
Report
15 Aug 2007
A global in-depth report covering the intersections between Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer
Guide
29 Sep 2005
The purpose of the manual is to provide guidelines and supporting material for sites embarking on a STEPS stroke surveillance study, so they are able to:plan and prepare the surveillance study scope and environment • recruit and train data collecti...
