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World Health Organization

WHO Information Kit on Epilepsy: What you can do

Report

26 Nov 2018

This resolution provides general information about epilepsy, an overview of current pilot projects as examples of what can be achieved, and actions that can be taken by specific stakeholder groups with reference to WHA68.20.

ReportMental Health and Neurological Conditions

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World Health Organization

Epilepsy Management at Primary Health Level in rural China

Report

26 Nov 2018

This report documents the success achieved in reducing the epilepsy treatment gap by managing epilepsy at a primary health-care level in China. It also presents the lessons derived for the development of effective and sustainable epilepsy scaling up strategy in resource-poor settings.

ReportMental Health and Neurological ConditionsHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care

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World Health Organization

SAFER: preventing and reducing alcohol-related harms

Report

12 Nov 2018

This report highlights political commitments made at the NCD high-level meetings of the General Assembly in 2011 and 2014, at the World Health Assembly through the 2010 WHO Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol (the global alcohol strategy) [3], and in the WHO global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013–2020.

ReportPrevention of violence and injuriesHarmful use of alcohol

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WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia

Expert meeting on population sodium reduction strategies for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in the South East Asian Region

Report

12 Nov 2018

This report presents the technical deliberations of the three-day meeting by participants of an Expert Meeting on Population Sodium Strategies for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases in the South East Asian Region. The meeting focused on the development of regional strategies for salt reduction and measured population salt intake in the region.

ReportCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesNutrition and food safety+1

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WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia

Prioritized research agenda for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases through a primary health care approach

Report

12 Nov 2018

The report highlights outcomes from the regional workshop on prioritized research agenda for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases through a primary health care approach, held in Kandy, Sri Lanka during 8–10 August 2012. The workshop discussed the adaptation of the research agenda to national contexts.

ReportPrimary health care

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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific

Noncommunicable disease education manual : a primer for policy-makers and health-care professionals

Report

12 Nov 2018

This manual contains modules for noncommunicable disease education for policy-makers and health care professionals.

ReportHealth Literacy DevelopmentHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care

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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific

Noncommunicable disease education manual for primary health care professionals and patients

Report

12 Nov 2018

This manual contains modules for noncommunicable disease education for primary health care professionals and patients.

ReportHealth Literacy DevelopmentHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care

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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific

Progress on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in the Western Pacific Region: country capacity survey 2017

Report

12 Nov 2018

This report presents a snapshot of the progress on NCD prevention and control in the Western Pacific Region in terms of infrastructure, policies, health information systems and health systems capacity as collected in the NCD Country Capacity Survey 2017.

ReportHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

GCM/NCD progress report 2014-2016

Report

12 Nov 2018

This report highlights the achievements of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases over the period 2014 to 2016, in collaboration with Member States, United Nations agencies, colleagues across all clusters and levels of WHO, and other stakeholders who have engaged with the GCM/NCD in helping countries to achieve the nine voluntary targets of...

ReportMultisectoral ActionMultistakeholder Collaboration

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World Health Organization

Global NCD target prevent heart attacks and strokes through drug therapy and counselling

Briefs & Fact Sheets

12 Nov 2018

This action plan provides a roadmap of policies and interventions to realize SDG 3.4 to reduce premature NCD deaths. Heart attacks and strokes can be prevented if people at high risk are detected and treated.

Briefs & Fact SheetsCardiovascular DiseaseAccess to essential medicines and services

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World Health Organization

Global NCD target improve access to technologies and medicines to treat NCDs

Briefs & Fact Sheets

12 Nov 2018

This action plan provides a roadmap of policies and interventions to realize SDG 3.4 to reduce premature NCD deaths, target 3.8 to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), and target 3.b to support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for communicable and noncommunicable diseases.

Briefs & Fact SheetsAccess to essential medicines and servicesDigital health and innovation

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World Health Organization

What ministries of information and communications need to know: NCDs

Briefs & Fact Sheets

12 Nov 2018

This policy brief highlights that the increasing burden of NCDs is linked strongly to global marketing of tobacco, alcohol, and processed foods and beverages which are high in fat, sugar and/or salt.

Briefs & Fact SheetsSocial determinants of healthHarmful use of alcoholTobacco useUnhealthy diets

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