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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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
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
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...
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
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 more than 500,000 deaths of people from cardiovascular disease. Click Access for more info.
28 Jan 2021
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
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 Access for more info.
28 Jan 2021
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
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
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
IntraHealth International
INITIATIVE DE SANTE URBAINE POUR LA LUTTE CONTRE L’HYPERTENSION ARTERIELLE
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13 Jan 2021
Élaborée dans le cadre du projet "Better Hearts, Better Cities" soutenu par la Fondation Novartis, cette boîte à outils a été conçue pour aider les différents acteurs des programmes de lutte contre les maladies non transmissibles à mettre en...