Briefs & Fact Sheets
28 Dec 2018
This brief underlines the need to mainstream disability into all efforts to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment (SDG 5); highlights key issues for ending poverty (SDG 1) and ensuring healthy lives (SDG 3) for women and girls with disabili...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
17 Dec 2018
This publication outlines the impact of crises on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and why people living with NCDs are particularly vulnerable. It was originally produced and shared as a briefing for a bootcamp on NCDs held by the IFRC, Danish Red Cr...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
06 Dec 2018
The issue brief highlights key aspects of using competition law to promote access to health technologies from UNDP’s landmark publication “Using Competition Law to Promote Access to Health Technologies: A guidebook for low- and middle-income coun...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
06 Dec 2018
This brief provides an overview of the movement to implement California's climate change legislation in ways that offer maximum co-benefits to health, equity, and sustainability, and an overview of California's Health in All Policies movement, to sho...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
27 Nov 2018
This policy brief summarises the key points from the review on the role of health technology assessment (HTA) in medicine pricing and reimbursement with a focus on its use in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Briefs & Fact Sheets
27 Nov 2018
This policy brief provides key messages and an overview of dementia as a public health priority, including country preparedness, research prioritization, and health and social systems development.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
27 Nov 2018
This policy brief provides key messages and an overview of a human rights-based approach for people living with dementia, including case-studies.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
27 Nov 2018
This policy brief provides key messages and an overview of supporting informal caregivers of people living with dementia, including health and economic impact, cost of care, and barriers to accessing caregiver support services.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
27 Nov 2018
This policy brief provides key messages and an overview dementia, including prevalence, incidence, impact, and global economic cost.
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 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 medicin...
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.
