Publication
05 Apr 2024
This guide focuses on self-care and healthy lifestyle choices to support us to achieve healthy ageing. This includes our participation in holding our government accountable for its commitments and to be engaged in decision making about health and care services in our community and beyond. This guide is for everyone interested in achieving healthy ageing. We hope it will be useful for people liv...
Publication
05 Apr 2024
Community health volunteer training manual (213 pages) - This manual is to be used by trainers responsible for training community health volunteers. The manual can also be shared with community health volunteers to enable them to return to the content when needed and should also be accompanied with the self-care manual as a job aid. This training mainly focuses on Community health care voluntee...
04 Apr 2024
Background As one of the world’s fastest ageing populations, but with a relatively low per capita income, Vietnam faces numerous challenges in community healthcare, especially in the area of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). In 2019, NCDs accounted for 73.7 percent of Vietnam’s total disease burden and mortality nationwide. Among NCDs, hypertension and diabetes mellitus are the most prevalen...
04 Apr 2024
Publication
10 Mar 2024
HelpAge's Caregiver Manual - HelpAge International is a basic guide for families and volunteers providing care and support for older people. It includes: An overview of who this guide is for Section 1: Guide for the organisers, managers or trainers of volunteer caregivers Section 2: Guide for caregiving for older people with care needs Assisting with mobility Assisting w...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
25 Oct 2023
The SUNI-SEA NCD Self-Care Application, developed by HelpAge International Myanmar under the SUNI-SEAproject, presents an opportunity to address the challenge of reaching people in need under constrained service delivery conditions. The application allows individuals to self-assess their risks for hypertension, diabetes, and mental health conditions, offering valuable advice on...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
25 Oct 2023
The consortium Scaling Up NCD Interventions in Southeast Asia developed an operational and simple screening algorithm to identify people with NCD-risk factors to be used in community-based programmes. This brief explains the experiences with the introduction of this algorithm in Indonesia. The algorithm improved the implementation fidelity among cadres. Hence, the simplified scr...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
30 Jul 2023
This policy brief highlights the urgent need for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to be responsive to the needs and rights of women across the life-course including older women, who make up over 27% of the global female population yet are largely invisible in gender and health policy debates It outlines how gender-based inequalities accumulate over time, resulting in heightened health burdens...
Report
30 Mar 2023
This report reveals the barriers that millions of older people face in realising their right to health, specifically access to quality, acceptable, and non-discriminatory health services. It is grounded in consultations with older people from diverse contexts (including Colombia, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, and Spain). The full report can be accessed here
Briefs & Fact Sheets
30 Apr 2020
This policy brief examines the implementation of the WHO Package of Essential Non-Communicable Disease Interventions (PEN) across Myanmar’s 330 townships and identifies key operational challenges such as supply chain gaps, training limitations, low public awareness, and inconsistent service quality. Drawing on implementation experience and research, it puts forward targeted recommendations to ex...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
30 Jan 2020
This policy brief examines how inclusive self‑help groups in Myanmar can support prevention, early detection, and management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) at community level. Drawing on experience from HelpAge International’s collaboration with local health and academic partners, it outlines how village-based groups engage people aged 40+, conduct screenings for conditions like hypertens...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
30 Aug 2019
This policy brief highlights the urgent need for Myanmar to prioritise non-communicable diseases (NCDs) within its Universal Health Coverage (UHC) agenda. It presents compelling data such as NCDs driving 59% of deaths to underline growing demographic and epidemiological shifts. The brief argues that health systems must be reoriented toward preventive, affordable, and equitable NCD services, especi...
15 May 2019
This article announces the launch of two country-specific Global AgeWatch Insights reports on Tanzania and Vietnam, released by HelpAge International in partnership with AARP. The reports underscore the critical role of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in reducing health inequalities faced by older people. Despite policy commitments, many older adults remain excluded from affordable, age-appropriat...
15 May 2019
