Briefs & Fact Sheets
20 Oct 2023
Key facts By 2030, one in six people in the world will be aged 60 years or over. Loneliness and social isolation are key risk factors for mental health conditions in later life. One in six older adults experience abuse, often by their own c...
19 Oct 2023
FIRS and the American College of Cardiology offer a free NCD Academy course on Chronic Respiratory Diseases. Learn the skills to prevent, diagnose and manage some of the most burdensome CRDs.
18 Oct 2023
Experts urge food companies to commit to WHO goal of global ban by 2023 Thousands of deaths and heart attacks could be prevented - and billions of Kenyan shillings saved - if the country restricted trans fat in food to World Health Organization (WHO) limits, according to research by The George Institute for Global Health.1 Findings were published today in BMJ Global Health. Researchers model...
18 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023
The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) extends its deep-felt concern and profound solidarity towards the populations affected by the current events between Israel and Palestine and condemns unfolding incidents. The humanitarian emergency has persisted for the past 10 days, and with each passing minute, the number of innocent lives lost continues to rise,...
17 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and mental health conditions can have a significant impact on children and adolescents. Risk factors such as physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, tobacco use and harmful use of alcohol often negatively affect child and adolescent health and wellbeing and cause poor health outcomes in adu...
13 Oct 2023
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...
11 Oct 2023
At Women Deliver 2023, The George Institute for Global Health and World Health Organization launched a global call-to-action to share evidence, best practice and learning around the gendered barriers to access for non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention, early diagnosis, treatment, and care. In Korea, single mother Mrs. Kim works as a farm labourer and has a treatable heart condition. Her mai...
11 Oct 2023
Article
10 Oct 2023
The World Health Assembly endorsed the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) 2013–2020 (NCD-GAP), now extended to 2030. An evaluation of the NCD-GAP, published in 2020, found that research has been th...
Guide
09 Oct 2023
Laws on mental health often fail to address discrimination and human rights violations including in mental health care settings. In order to support countries in this area, the World Health Organization and the Office of the High Commissioner for Hum...
09 Oct 2023
The investment approach taken by UN agencies WHO, UNDP, and the UN Inter-agency Task Force on NCDs is crucial in generating needed whole-of-government buy-in as demonstrated in the Philippines. It includes the strengthening of policies and regulations, improving access to health services, and further developing sustainable financing mechanisms. The Philippine experience shows that investing in...
09 Oct 2023
Publication
09 Oct 2023
One in seven people suffers from migraines, including 10% of children, but the winners of the 2021 Brain Prize may have a cure. Migraines have long been attributed to stress, but scientists have now found a chemical trigger called CGRP and have devel...
09 Oct 2023
NCDs account for 74% of all global deaths, 41 million people each year, yet they attract a miniscule fraction of global health financing. So situating them within other regional and global health movements, such as advocacy for Universal Health Coverage, is key to raising their profile and boosting support for NCD care and prevention, explains Dr. Douglas Webb in this episode of the NCD Alliance p...
09 Oct 2023
