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SUNI-SEA Consortium, Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)

Strengthening primary health care: the key to tackling non-communicable diseases and achieving universal health coverage and healthy ageing

Briefs & Fact Sheets

25 Oct 2023

Policy brief of the research project Scaling Up NCD Interventions in Southeast Asia. This policy brief describes comprehensive actions to improve community-based healthcare and primary healthcare, to improve screening, early diagnosis and treatment o...

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World Bank Group

Global SSB Tax Database

Database

13 Oct 2023

The Global SSB Tax Database is an open source of data on sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax designs worldwide. It is intended to support research, inform policy decisions, and guide the development of SSB taxation best practice. Scroll down to explor...

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NCD Alliance, WHO

Selling a sick future: countering harmful marketing to children and young people across risk factors and NCDs

Report

11 Oct 2023

Commercial marketing threatens human rights and is a major factor behind the global rise of NCDs – which cause 41 million deaths annually (74% of global mortality), with rising rates among children and young people in countries of all resource leve...

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BMJ

Taxation of tobacco, alcohol, and sugarsweetened beverages: reviewing the evidence and dispelling the myths

Article

09 Oct 2023

AbstractThe article reviews the large body of evidence on how taxation affects the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB). There is abundant evidence that demand for tobacco, alcohol, and SSB is price-responsive and that...

ArticleHealth taxationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingHarmful use of alcoholTobacco useUnhealthy diets+3

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PAN American Health Organization (PAHO)

Nutritional Care Guide for Pediatric Cancer

Guide

15 Aug 2023

This guide has been developed as part of the World Health Organization's Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer, known as "Cure All Americas," with the primary purpose of alleviating the challenges faced by pediatric oncology patients. Its mission is...

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The Lancet

Commentary: A plan for accelerated action on obesity

Article

04 Aug 2023

Halting the rise in obesity among children, adolescents, and adults is essential to combat the growing burden of non-communicable diseases and to improve nutrition, health, and wellbeing for all. Failing to do so threatens progress towards reducing p...

ArticleCardiovascular DiseaseDiabetesUnhealthy diets+1

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International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)

FIP knowledge and skills reference guide for professional development in tobacco cessation and other risk factors in NCDs: A companion to the FIP Supporting tobacco cessation and the treatment of tobacco dependence: A handbook for pharmacists (2023)

Publication

29 Jul 2023

The “Supporting tobacco cessation and the treatment of tobacco dependence: A handbook for pharmacists” is accompanied by a publication describing the knowledge and skills required for the delivery of pharmacist-led interventions to support tobacc...

PublicationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesMultistakeholder CollaborationAccess to essential medicines and servicesHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+7

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World Health Organization

WHO acceleration plan to stop obesity

Guide

26 Jun 2023

At the 75th World Health Assembly in 2022, Member States adopted new recommendations for the prevention and management of obesity and endorsed the WHO Acceleration Plan to Stop Obesity. (A75_REC1) . The WHO Acceleration Plan to Stop Obesity is design...

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World Health Organization

Health service delivery framework for prevention and management of obesity

18 May 2023

Multisectoral efforts to influence behaviours around healthy diet and exercise, while essential, have been insufficient to halt the rising prevalence of obesity. While these efforts must continue and escalate, it is now imperative to also deliver a c...

Health system strengthening, including governance and financingNutrition and food safetyPrimary health careUnhealthy diets+1

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World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe.

Nutrition, physical activity, well-being and COVID-19 - Results from 13 countries participating in round 6 of the Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative study

Briefs & Fact Sheets

17 May 2023

The sixth data collection round of COSI involves 35 Member States, and data collection is still ongoing in several countries. This fact sheet presents the results from 13 of these States that collected information during the 2021-2022 school year...

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World Heart Federation (WHF)

World Heart Report 2023 - Confronting the World's Number One Killer

Report

24 Apr 2023

The World Heart Report 2023 offers a comprehensive overview of the current trends and evolving landscape across key dimensions of cardiovascular health. By integrating epidemiological, policy, and economic data, the World Heart Report equips policyma...

ReportCardiovascular DiseaseHealth Literacy DevelopmentHarmful use of alcoholHousehold and Outdoor Air PollutionPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+5

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Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Preventing and Managing Conflicts of Interest in Country-level Nutrition Programs: A Roadmap for Implementing the World Health Organization’s Draft Approach in the Americas

Guide

31 Mar 2023

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) expects this publication to help its Member States identify, prevent, and manage potential conflicts of interest in potential engagement with non-State actors in their nutrition programs. The publication se...

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