WHO Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
On the Road to 2025: a WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region multi-stakeholder consultation in preparation for the Fourth UN High-level Meeting on NCDs
Report
20 Jan 2025
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.