Report
12 Nov 2018
The report highlights outcomes from the regional workshop on prioritized research agenda for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases through a primary health care approach, held in Kandy, Sri Lanka during 8–10 August 2012. The workshop d...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This report presents the results of analysis of population-level surveillance data on NCD risk factors from selected countries in the Region, namely, China, Fiji, Malaysia, Nauru and Philippines. The aim was to conduct comparable cross-country analys...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This manual contains modules for noncommunicable disease education for policy-makers and health care professionals.
Report
12 Nov 2018
This manual contains modules for noncommunicable disease education for primary health care professionals and patients.
Report
12 Nov 2018
This report presents a snapshot of the progress on NCD prevention and control in the Western Pacific Region in terms of infrastructure, policies, health information systems and health systems capacity as collected in the NCD Country Capacity Survey 2...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This document is a report of the second intercountry training workshop was conducted in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in February 2017 on subnational initiatives for cardiovascular disease prevention, control, and management in the Mekong countries.
Report
12 Nov 2018
This policy brief describes practical actions to address the health disparity in people with severe mental disorders. It provides different stakeholder groups including policy-makers, health-program managers, health-service providers, NGOs and servic...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This report highlights the achievements of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases over the period 2014 to 2016, in collaboration with Member States, United Nations agencies, colleagues across a...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Nov 2018
This action plan provides a roadmap of policies and interventions to realize SDG 3.4 to reduce premature NCD deaths. Heart attacks and strokes can be prevented if people at high risk are detected and treated.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Nov 2018
This action plan provides a roadmap of policies and interventions to realize SDG 3.4 to reduce premature NCD deaths, target 3.8 to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), and target 3.b to support the research and development of vaccines and medicin...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Nov 2018
This policy brief highlights that the increasing burden of NCDs is linked strongly to global marketing of tobacco, alcohol, and processed foods and beverages which are high in fat, sugar and/or salt.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Nov 2018
This policy brief highlights the increasing exposure of children and adolescents to tobacco, alcohol, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity, and points out the education sector as having a fundamental responsibility to protect children’s health an...
