The Lancet
Early-life prevention of non-communicable diseases
Report
25 Oct 2024
Report advocates for minimizing in-utero and childhood risks for NCDs as an imperitive for reducing poverty and gendered inequalities.
Report
25 Oct 2024
Report advocates for minimizing in-utero and childhood risks for NCDs as an imperitive for reducing poverty and gendered inequalities.
Report
25 Oct 2024
Policy brief by Centre of Excellence for CRVS and Le Centre D'Excellence describing how civil record-keeping disproportionately excludes women and girls, and how women can be instrumental in correcting this problem.
Report
25 Oct 2024
Report by the Institute for Alcohol Studies and Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems summarising and expanding on a series of seminars
Publication
25 Oct 2024
The purpose of this report is in response to a request from the Seventh session of the Conference of Parties (COP7) to review the relationship between gender and tobacco, and provide evidence for gender-responsive tobacco control. Globally more men t...
Report
25 Oct 2024
Report reviewing the published, English-language research literature on issues affecting women in relation to dementia from an international perspective.
Dialogue
25 Oct 2024
Summary of a discussion in Beijing among national policymakers and experts to share experiences of empowerment and women's health throughout the life course.
25 Oct 2024
Every year, millions of women die from heart disease, stroke and complications of diabetes, with the greatest number of deaths occurring in low-resource settings, such as parts of rural India. The SMARThealth Pregnancy programme aims to help com...
Dialogue
25 Oct 2024
This episode features a discussion with Dr Ophira Ginsburg and Dr Carinna Hockham about the Lancet Commission on Women and Cancer, currently underway. The Commission is exploring the relationship between gender, power and cancer, and is taking an int...
Publication
25 Oct 2024
Currently there are no policies in place that require researchers to consider the sex and gender of the people who participate in research trials in the UK. This means that studies are not required to report results about sex or gender differences, a...
Publication
25 Oct 2024
Monika Arora, Emma Feeny, and Jane Madden shed light on Women's Health and its challenges, particularly in accessing healthcare for chronic diseases, in their article published on Health Policy Watch in preparation for Universal Health Coverage Day 2...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
22 Oct 2024
Unhealthy diets are a major driver of noncommunicable diseases. In particular, ultra-processed foods, which contain high levels of sugars, sodium, saturated fats, and refined carbohydrates, contribute significantly to the incidence of NCDs such as ob...
Case study
22 Oct 2024
The idea of the Africa NCDs Network (ANN) was conceived in 2015, advanced in 2016 following an African regional civil society consultation meeting organised by the WHO Regional Office for Africa and NCD Alliance, and took off in 2020 with the support...