WHO Regional Office for Africa
Fact sheet: Physical Activity
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet presents an overview with key facts on physical activity, recommendations, and WHO response in the African Region.
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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Promoting physical activity to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
This information sheet provides answers to frequently asked questions on physical activity, the intensity of physical activity, and the levels of physical activity in the region of the Eastern Mediterranean.
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Role of legislation in preventing and controlling noncommunicable diseases
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
This information sheet provides answers to frequently asked questions on the roles of legislation and legal interventions in the region of the Eastern Mediterranean to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases.
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Early detection of cancers common in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This publication explores the impact of the growing burden of cancer in countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region is evident, and necessitates implementation of suitable and effective cancer control policies.
World Health Organization
Framework to monitor and evaluate implementation of the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health
Report
17 Oct 2018
The overall aims of this document are to: provide guidance to Member States on monitoring and evaluation of national diet and physical activity policies and to assist them in identifying specific indicators to measure the implementation of these poli...
World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO list of priority medical devices for cancer management
Publication
04 Mar 2017
OverviewThis publication is based on the list of clinical interventions selected from clinical guidelines on prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, palliative care, monitoring and end of life care. This publication addresses medical devices for...
WHO Regional Office for Europe
Armenia STEPS Survey 2016: Fact Sheet on NCD Risk Factors
Fact sheet
18 Jun 2016
This fact sheet presents data from Armenia’s 2016 STEPS survey on noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors in adults aged 18–69, covering smoking, alcohol, diet, physical activity, overweight/obesity, blood pressure, cholesterol, and salt intak...
WHO regional Office for Europe
Armenia STEPS Survey 2016: Summary of Key Results
Report
18 Jun 2016
This report presents detailed results from the Armenia STEPS Survey 2016, providing statistical breakdowns by sex and age groups (18–69 and 45–69 years). It covers the prevalence of major noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors in Armenia usin...
WHO Regional Office for Europe
Armenia STEPS Survey 2016: Prevalence of Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors
Publication
18 Jun 2016
The Armenia STEPS Survey 2016 is the country's first national survey on noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors, conducted using the WHO STEPwise approach. Covering adults aged 18–69, the survey assessed both behavioral and biological risk facto...
World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO position paper on mammography screening
Guide
04 Mar 2014
Overview Every year, breast cancer kills more than 500 000 women around the world. In resource–poor settings, a majority of women with breast cancer are diagnosed at an advanced stage of disease; their 5-year survival rates are low, ranging from 10...
World Health Organization (WHO)
Package of Essential Noncommunicable (PEN) disease interventions for primary health care in low-resource settings
04 Mar 2013
OverviewThese tools of the WHO Package of Essential Noncommunicable Diseases Interventions (WHO PEN) support implementation of very cost effective interventions through an integrated approach.Implementation of WHO PEN is a key component of the object...
International Agency for Research on Cancer
Nutrition and Lifestyle: Opportunities for Cancer Prevention
Publication
15 Aug 2002
The search for the links between diet, nutritional and metabolic factors and cancer aetiology is an area of research which, over the past two decades, has attracted increasing attention both from a scientific and a public health point of view. In thi...