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12 Feb 2021

World Bank

World Bank and Access Accelerated China Collaboration Promotes Knowledge Sharing About Health Care Reform

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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World Health Organization

Global protocol for measuring fatty acid profiles of foods, with emphasis on monitoring trans-fatty acids originating from partially hydrogenated oils

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04 Feb 2021

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PublicationCardiovascular DiseaseDiabetesNutrition and food safetyUnhealthy diets+2

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04 Feb 2021

Bloomberg

Stopping the Next Pandemic Starts Now: The next global health crisis is coming, and the world needs to prepare.

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

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04 Feb 2021

Foresight Global Health

Building Back Better: Investing in healthy populations and resilient heath systems for NCDs and Mental Health to be better prepared for future crises.

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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Union for International Cancer Control

Global action on financing cervical cancer elimination

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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...

PublicationCancerHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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28 Jan 2021

International Agency for Research on Cancer

Social inequalities and cancer webinar

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

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28 Jan 2021

World Health Organization

WHO plan to eliminate industrially-produced trans-fatty acids from global food supply

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 &nbsp;more than 500,000 deaths of people from cardiovascular disease. Click&nbsp;Access for more info.

28 Jan 2021

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28 Jan 2021

World Health Organization

More than 3 billion people protected from harmful trans fat in their food

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

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28 Jan 2021

World Health Organization

WHO urges governments to promote healthy food in public facilities

Public settings, such as schools, childcare centres, nursing homes, hospitals and correctional facilities and all other canteens of public institutions, can play a key role in ensuring people are provided with healthy food and helping prevent the 8 million annual deaths currently caused by unhealthy diets. Click&nbsp;Access&nbsp;for more info. &nbsp;

28 Jan 2021

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28 Jan 2021

World Health Organization

Reaching Turkey’s health policy goals could avert thousands of deaths says research from WHO/Europe

Approximately 20 000 deaths could have been averted in Turkey in 2017 if the country had reached its current goals of reducing tobacco and salt consumption by 30%, and physical inactivity by 10%, according to WHO/Europe experts in an article published in the Lancet. The study calculated possible outcomes of the action plan for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) adopted in the country for 2017–2025....

28 Jan 2021

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28 Jan 2021

World Health Organization

New WHO report: population-based screening for cardiovascular disease risk factors does not reduce CVD mortality

Population-level screening for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors has no effect on lowering CVD morbidity and mortality, concludes a recently published WHO Health Evidence Network (HEN) report. To reduce CVD risks, which are also associated with poorer COVID-19 outcomes, the report proposes some alternative measures for consideration by policy-makers in the WHO European Region. CVDs are...

28 Jan 2021

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28 Jan 2021

World Health Organization

The Health for All Film Festival

The WHO Health for All Film Festival invites independent film-makers, production companies, public institutions, NGOs, communities, students, and film schools from around the world to submit their original short films on health. The festival aims to recruit a new generation of film and video innovators to champion and promote global health issues. Submissions will be open from 24 October 2020 t...

28 Jan 2021

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