Strategy document
23 Oct 2020
This new statement on 'Protecting the development and implementation of public health policies from undue influence of unhealthy commodity industries' from the World Health Organization (WHO) Civil Society Working Group on NCDs calls on all...
Report
23 Oct 2020
A new report launched by Scottish Health Action for Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) in England finds that masculinity and the alcohol norm is affecting men negatively and increasing alcohol harm among British males...
Publication
13 Oct 2020
The aim of this guidance is to enhance the capacity of health care facilities to protect and improve the health of their target communities in an unstable and changing climate; and to empower health care facilities to be environmentally sustainable,...
Publication
07 Oct 2020
This second edition of the Global Atlas of Palliative Care updates the current situation of global palliative care development since the original version was published in 2014. A lot has happened in the intervening years including the passage of the...
Strategy document
04 Oct 2020
United Nations General Assembly Seventy-fourth session Agenda items 14 and 120
Publication
30 Sep 2020
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, tend to be of long duration and are the result of a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioural factors. The main types of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (CVD...
Publication
29 Sep 2020
The George Institute undertook a systematic analysis of global COVID-19 related registered clinical trials by mapping how they relate to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Our analysis outlines the current challenges, and provides recommendations about...
Publication
19 Sep 2020
Key reference on the burden of atopic dermatitis, containing evidence that supports the efforts of the Global Atopic Dermatitis Atlas (GADA). Authored by M.R. Laughter (University of Colorado, USA), M.B.C. Maymone (University of Colorado, USA) et al....
Guide
19 Sep 2020
This resource package provides health workers with guidance to facilitate the delivery of quality NCD care in humanitarian crisis situations. When national guidance is not available, PEN-H may be adapted to suit national contexts. The package could a...
Report
15 Sep 2020
Signalling Virtue, Promoting Harm: Unhealthy commodity industries and COVID-19, authored by the NCD Alliance and the SPECTRUM Consortium, is a preliminary exposé and analysis of tactics and strategies adopted by the unhealthy commodity industries du...
Report
10 Sep 2020
In May 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for the global elimination of industrially produced TFA by 2023 and released the REPLACE action framework. The framework is a roadmap for countries to implement the prompt, complete and sustaine...
Report
08 Sep 2020
Responding to NCDs during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic describes why strong action on NCDs must be an integral part of the COVID-19 response, recovery and building back better and steps that should be taken immediately and in the longer term...
