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15 Sep 2021

World Health Organization

WHO releases new compendium of innovative health technologies for COVID-19 and other priority diseases: Innovative technologies key to saving lives

To ensure that all countries benefit from health innovation, WHO has compiled a compendium of 24 new technologies that can be used in low-resource settings. The compendium’s main objective was to select and assess technologies that can have an immediate and future impact on COVID-19 preparedness and response, potentially improve health outcomes and quality of life, and/or offer a solution to...

15 Sep 2021

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World Health Organization

Welcome to the global repository of interventions for creating healthier environments and improving health

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15 Sep 2021

The Compendium is a comprehensive collection of available WHO and other United Nations (UN) guidance for improving health by creating healthier environments. It provides an overview and easy access of 500 actions, and a framework for thinking about h...

PublicationEnvironment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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25 Aug 2021

World Health Organization

Chile: where action on hypertension is saving lives

In Chile, more people die from cardiovascular disease than from any other cause. More than a quarter of all deaths every year – around 30 000&nbsp;in total – are due to the disease. Hypertension – also known as high blood pressure – is a serious medical condition and a key risk factor for cardiovascular disease. People living with hypertension have persistently raised pressure in their...

25 Aug 2021

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15 Aug 2021

Union for International Cancer Control

Nutrition and cancer: fostering a global community

Over the last thirty years, there has been increasing recognition of the need to better understand how lifestyle –&nbsp;including factors related to diet, nutrition and physical activity – can influence the risk of cancer, its treatment and survival.&nbsp; Although there has been more and more research in this area, those in the cancer world are not necessarily familiar with the role of nut...

15 Aug 2021

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World Council of Churches

Health-Promoting Churches volume II: A handbook to accompany churches in establishing and running sustainable health promotion ministries

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07 Aug 2021

With an endorsement from the WHO Director General and available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, this handbook builds on the earlier volume and helps churches to move from knowledge to action. Steering away from technical jargon, it provid...

PublicationHealth Literacy DevelopmentMultisectoral ActionMultistakeholder CollaborationHealth promotionPrimary health careSocial determinants of health+4

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International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)

Diabetes prevention, screening and management: A handbook for pharmacists (2021)

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29 Jul 2021

This handbook supports the Practice Transformation Programme on Diabetes. It presents an overview of diabetes and describes the various services pharmacists can provide aiming at disease prevention, screening, disease state management and treatment o...

PublicationDiabetesMultistakeholder CollaborationAccess to essential medicines and servicesHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+5

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Springer - Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

The role of collaborative, multistakeholder partnerships in reshaping the health management of patients with noncommunicable diseases during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

28 Jul 2021

Background Policies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted the screening, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of noncommunicable (NCD) patients while affecting NCD prevention and risk factor control. Aims To discuss how the first wa...

Multistakeholder CollaborationHealthy AgingHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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20 Jul 2021

Humanitarian Studies

A recipe for disaster: COVID-19 and chronic diseases amid humanitarian crises

We know that the combination of COVID-19, chronic diseases and poverty present a global health emergency: a ‘perfect storm’. But what does this mean in places with even greater fragility, conflict and uncertainty, especially now that funding for the humanitarian sector is at risk? Even before COVID-19 turned the world upside down, it was predicted that 168 million people worldwide would nee...

20 Jul 2021

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13 Jul 2021

World Health Organization

Putting people first in managing their health: new WHO guideline on self-care interventions

The World Health Organization (WHO) has today released new guidance which recognize how people can actively &nbsp;take decisions for their own health and the health of their loved ones. The new WHO Consolidated Guideline on Self-Care Interventions for Health provides evidence-based recommendations on specific self-care interventions that can help to ensure quality health and well-being, and to pro...

13 Jul 2021

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Global Health Action

Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of a national multisectoral action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in Nepal: perspectives of stakeholders

11 Jul 2021

Background: Nepal adopted the Multisectoral Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (MSAP) in 2014. Implementation of the plan has been challenging, with limited participation from non-health sectors. Objectives: Th...

Multisectoral ActionMultistakeholder CollaborationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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07 Jul 2021

World Health Organization

WHO Country Presence Portal

We are pleased to inform you that the WHO Country Presence Portal is officially LIVE! The Portal is a comprehensive “one-stop shop” that provides information about WHO’s work at country level. What’s in the Portal?&nbsp; The Portal contains information about WHO’s work in 152 countries, territories, and areas where WHO has physical presence, including: 1. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;...

07 Jul 2021

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05 Jul 2021

World Health Organization

Target 3.A of the SDGs - WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Key to Recovery from COVID-19 and Building Back Better

Curious to learn why tobacco is a burden to development and how tobacco control will contribute to recovery from COVID-19 and building back better?. Join our virtual high-level side event at the 2021 High Level Political Forum, under the auspices of ECOSOC.&nbsp; Tuesday 6 July 2021 from 19:00 to 20:30, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna, 13:00&nbsp;to 14.30 EST (New York time) The s...

05 Jul 2021

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