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NCD Child

Learning from NCD Child Advocacy Workshops and Projects: Building Future Policy Opportunities for Health and Education

Report

13 Aug 2020

This report focuses on the future, drawing on experiences from past NCD Child workshops and small grants. It explores the potential for increased collaboration between the health and education sectors, as key drivers of the response to non-communicab...

ReportCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthHarmful use of alcoholHousehold and Outdoor Air PollutionPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+8

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World Health Organization

Digital Health: A Strategy to Maintain Health Care for People Living with Noncommunicable Diseases during COVID-19

Strategy document

10 Aug 2020

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the main cause of death and disability worldwide. Effective management of these chronic conditions depends largely on continuous, responsive, accessible, and quality services and successful patient engagement and s...

Strategy documentCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsDigital health and innovation+4

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World Council of Churches

Health-Promoting Churches: Reflections on Health and Healing for Churches on Commemorative World Health Days

Publication

07 Aug 2020

Reflections on 15 WHO commemorative health days prepared to promote conversations in churches on different health matters, with forewords from the WCC General Secretary and WHO Director General. Each reflection is less than a 1000 words and can be in...

PublicationHealth Literacy DevelopmentMultistakeholder CollaborationCommunicable diseasesHealth promotionPrimary health careSocial determinants of health+4

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World Health Organization

Palliative care

Briefs & Fact Sheets

05 Aug 2020

Key facts Palliative care improves the quality of life of patients and that of their families who are facing challenges associated with life-threatening illness, whether physical, psychological, social or spiritual. The quality of life of careg...

Briefs & Fact Sheets

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World Health Organization

Cancer country profiles 2020

Database

03 Aug 2020

The aim of the WHO Cancer Country Profile is to synthesize the current status of cancer control for each WHO Member States (194 total) as well as by WHO Regions (6 total). These profiles establish an updated country baseline and support monitoring tr...

DatabaseCancer

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United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Comissioner

COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples' Rights

Article

03 Aug 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting indigenous peoples, exacerbating underlying structural inequalities and pervasive discrimination. These serious impacts need to be specifically addressed in the response to and aftermath of this c...

ArticleCommunicable diseasesGender, equity and human rights

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United Nations Development Programme

SparkBlue

Database

03 Aug 2020

SparkBlue is an online engagement community powered by UNDP. Spark an Idea, Spark a Conversation, Spark Change. &nbsp;

Database

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United Nations

Policy Brief of the UN Secretary-General: A Disability-Inclusive Response to COVID-19

Briefs & Fact Sheets

03 Aug 2020

The global crisis of COVID-19 is deepening pre-existing inequalities, exposing the extent of exclusion and highlighting that work on disability inclusion is imperative. People with disabilities—one billion people— are one of the most excluded gro...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCommunicable diseasesDisability and rehabilitationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing+1

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World Health Organization

COVID-19 and beyond: banning tobacco and e-cigarettes in public places is a public health must

Article

03 Aug 2020

There is no safe level of exposure to second-hand smoke Following the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, 15 countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region took a bold decision to ban waterpipe use temporarily in public places. This is i...

ArticleCommunicable diseasesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingSocial determinants of healthTobacco use+2

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World Health Organization

Tobacco and waterpipe use increases the risk of COVID-19

Guide

03 Aug 2020

This Q&amp;A is based on, and benefitted from, the most recent evidence on COVID-19 and tobacco use. Although evidence is still accumulating on the links between COVID-19 and tobacco, waterpipe and e-products use, current research suggests a possible...

GuideCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesCommunicable diseasesTobacco use+2

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World Health Organization

Q&A: Tobacco and COVID-19

Guide

03 Aug 2020

Questions and answers on tobacco and COVID-19.

GuideCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsCommunicable diseasesTobacco use+4

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World Health Organization

Smoking and COVID-19: Scientific Brief

Article

03 Aug 2020

The harms of tobacco use are well-established. Tobacco causes 8 million deaths every year from cardiovascular diseases, lung disorders, cancers, diabetes, and hypertension.1 Smoking tobacco is also a known risk factor for severe disease and death fro...

ArticleChronic Respiratory DiseasesCommunicable diseasesTobacco use+1

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