Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Mar 2021
Key facts Injuries – both unintentional and violence-related – take the lives of 4.4 million people around the world each year and constitute nearly 8% of all deaths. For people age 5-29 years, 3 of the top 5 causes of death are injury-re...
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11 Mar 2021
Air pollution is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, contributing to an estimated 6.7 million deaths worldwide in 2019 - half of which were due to heart disease and stroke. Fine particulate matter and other pollutants infiltrate the...
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25 Feb 2021
Abstract Non-communicable diseases (NCD) represent an increasing global challenge with the majority of mortality occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Concurrently, many humanitarian crises occur in these countries and the number...
16 Feb 2021
March 4th is World Obesity Day. This day is dedicated to addressing the global obesity epidemic. We are calling on every body to work together for happier, healthier and longer lives for everybody. Click Access for more info.
16 Feb 2021
12 Feb 2021
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have become the major – and growing – contributors to death and disability worldwide. China is no exception, particularly as it increasingly faces many of the same challenges that high-income countries face, such as high-risk behaviors like smoking, sedentary lifestyles and alcohol consumption and air pollution. Indeed, a 2016 joint study by the World Bank Gr...
12 Feb 2021
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04 Feb 2021
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04 Feb 2021
As the First World War wore on, a new scourge erupted: an influenza pandemic that left even more bodies in its wake than the conflict itself. But the 1918 pandemic was overshadowed by the war, and its lessons went unheeded. One hundred years later, the world faces a similar test. When the Covid-19 pandemic eventually recedes, will we learn the lessons it is teaching us? Or once the emergency su...
04 Feb 2021
04 Feb 2021
An open letter to Heads of State and Government The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exacerbated deep inequalities in our societies and highlighted the need to invest smarter to address the health care needs of people living with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – including cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, and associated mental health conditi...
04 Feb 2021
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01 Feb 2021
Executive Summary Cervical cancer is the fourth-most commonly detected cancer in women worldwide yet is one of the most preventable and treatable cancers if detected early. Women in low- and lower-middle income countries and the poorest within cou...
28 Jan 2021
Several factors may lead individuals from low socioeconomic groups to adopt unhealthy behaviours, to be exposed to a wider range and a higher intensity of cancer risk factors, and to have reduced access to treatment and health-care services, compared with their fellow citizens. This webinar will provide an overview of how the phenomenon of inequalities in cancer is shaped, and of how social and...
28 Jan 2021
28 Jan 2021
WHO today released REPLACE, a step-by-step guide for the elimination of industrially-produced trans-fatty acids from the global food supply. Eliminating trans fats is key to protecting health and saving lives: WHO estimates that every year, trans fat intake leads to more than 500,000 deaths of people from cardiovascular disease. Click Access for more info.
28 Jan 2021
28 Jan 2021
But, 11 out of 15 countries with the most coronary heart disease deaths due to trans fats have yet to take actions to eliminate the substances Two years into the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ambitious effort to eliminate industrially produced trans fats from the global food supply, the Organization reports that 58 countries so far have introduced laws that will protect 3.2 billion people...
28 Jan 2021
