WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
Noncommunicable diseases in the South East Asian Region
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12 Nov 2018
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WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
Noncommunicable diseases an information booklet
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12 Nov 2018
This reports describes ways to prevent and manage diabetes, coronary heart diseases, and hypertension. It focuses on the four modifiable risk factors that are largely responsible for these diseases – tobacco use, unhealthy diet, lack of physical ac...
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
Noncomunicable diseases including mental health and neurological disorders report of the regional meeting, Yangon, Myanmar, 24-26 April 2012
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12 Nov 2018
This report of a regional meeting in Yangon, Myanmar highlights the meeting as a platform which facilitated technical discussions on Mental Health, including Mental and Neurological disorders. It also provided a forum to discuss priority actions at r...
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
Strategy for oral health in South-East Asia, 2013-2020
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12 Nov 2018
This strategy for oral health in South-East Asia, 2013-2020, presents guidance to Member States in developing national policy and action plans to improve oral health within existing socioeconomic, cultural, political and health system contexts, fully...
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
Action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in South-East Asia, 2013-2020
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12 Nov 2018
This action plan for prevention and control of NCDs in South-East Asia, 2013-2020 provides a roadmap for regional and national actions for developing and implementing policies and programmes to reduce the burden of NCDs within the regional socioecono...
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
Strengthening health systems response to address noncommunicable diseases in the South East Asian Region
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12 Nov 2018
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which include cardiovascular diseases (CVDs ), cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory disease, are the leading cause of death in the South East Asian Region (SEAR) accounting for an estimated 8.5 million deaths each...
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
Integration of NCD care in emergency response and preparedness
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12 Nov 2018
This report is intended to provide technical guidance to emergency planners, emergency care professionals and policy-makers tasked with emergency response and preparedness to integrate NCD interventions within the national health emergency responses....
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
Report of the Regional Consultation on Multisectoral policies for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in the South East Asian Region
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12 Nov 2018
This document is a report of the Regional Consultation on Multisectoral Policies for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) (August 2014), in Bengaluru, India. The purpose of the meeting was to provide a forum to share best practic...
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
Strengthening NCD civil society organizations
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12 Nov 2018
This report presents the deliberations and recommendations of the participants of a two-day regional meeting on Strengthening NCD Civil Society Organizations. The meeting was attended by 94 participants, and aimed to stimulate a stronger civil societ...
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
Approaches to establishing country-level, multisectoral coordination mechanisms for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases
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12 Nov 2018
The determinants and implications of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are spread across diverse sectors within and outside the government. This calls for Member States to set up multisectoral coordination mechanisms (hereafter referred to as “the me...
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
Noncommunicable diseases risk behaviours among adults in the South East Asian Region: Findings from STEPS and GATS
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12 Nov 2018
This publication conveys the most recent quantitative surveillance results focusing on noncommunicable disease (NCDs)-related risk behaviors among adults from the WHO STEPwise approach to NCD risk factor surveillance (STEPS) and tobacco use among adu...
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
Noncommunicable diseases risk behaviors among youth in the South East Asian Region: findings from GSHS and GYTS
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12 Nov 2018
The publication conveys the quantitative surveillance results focusing on tobacco use and noncommunicable disease (NCD) related behaviours among youth (13–15 years) in Member States of the WHO South East Asian Region, namely, the Global School-base...