World Heart Federation (WHF)
Different heart diseases
Fact sheet
08 Apr 2019
This fact sheet gives an overview of the different heart diseases and the distribution of different cardiovascular disease types in males and females.
2501 Resources
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International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)
Building Global Capacity for Non-communication Diseases Prevention
Briefs & Fact Sheets
08 Apr 2019
Policy brief on building global capacity NCD prevention in LMICs. Highlights key focus issues and defines priority actions outlined by the DELPHI Study.
International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)
Advocating for Health Promotion Approached to Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention
08 Apr 2019
This brief ‘key messages’ paper aims to better enable IUHPE Officers, Board Members, Regional Committee Members and Members to advocate for health promotion approaches to NCD prevention in a unified way – and importantly to enable the Organizat...
Know Thrombosis General Infographic
Fact sheet
03 Apr 2019
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a condition in which a blood clot forms most often in the deep veins of the leg, groin or arm (known as deep vein thrombosis, DVT) and travels in the circulation, lodging in the lungs (known as pulmonary embolism, PE)....
International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH)
World Thrombosis Day Infographic - Atrial Fibrillation
Fact sheet
03 Apr 2019
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a common type of arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat. Because the heart beats and contracts irregularly, blood flow may slow or pool and cause the formation of a clot. A blood clot that forms as a result of AFib is an exa...
Louise Bannon, International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH)
World Thrombosis Day General Infographic
Fact sheet
03 Apr 2019
Thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot in a blood vessel. The vessel may be any vein or artery as for example, in a deep vein thrombosis (venous) or a coronary artery (arterial). The clot itself is termed a thrombus. Once formed, a clot can slow...
Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network (YP-CDN)
Securing a constituency-based approach for greater action on NCDs
Article
28 Mar 2019
This comment, published in the Lancet on Strengthening a constituency-based approach to youth engagement within the NCD movement, recognises not only the need for more institutionalised engagement but also the responsibility of youth organi...
World Health Organization
Afghanistan’s successful deployment of the NCD emergency kit shows the importance of integrating NCD services into primary health care to save lives
Afghanistan
20 Mar 2019
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are currently causing an estimated 109 000 deaths every year in Afghanistan. In order to address this burden, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health jointly with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners deployed the NCD emergency kit in four primary health care centers in different provinces with declared emergencies. The Kit supports treatment for...
20 Mar 2019
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Tobacco and Human Rights Resource Hub
Database
19 Mar 2019
When people think of tobacco, they often think of it as a public health problem, but it is a human rights problem as well. The marketing and sale of tobacco violate the right to health and life of people all around the world. ASH has been working to...
Conflict and Health
Host country responses to non-communicable diseases amongst Syrian refugees: a review
Publication
14 Mar 2019
Background Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey have hosted large refugee populations, with a high pre-conflict burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Objectives We aimed to describe the ways in...
14 Mar 2019
World Health Organization
WHO unveils sweeping reforms in drive towards “triple billion” targets
WHO today announced the most wide-ranging reforms in the Organization’s history to modernize and strengthen the institution to play its role more effectively and efficiently as the world’s leading authority on public health. The changes are designed to support countries in achieving the ambitious “triple billion” targets that are at the heart of WHO’s strategic plan for the next fi...
14 Mar 2019
14 Mar 2019
World Health Organization
Women and emergency telecommunications: Building gender equality into the global response
Women and children account for more than 75 per cent of the refugees and displaced persons at risk from war, famine, persecution and natural disasters, according to the United Nations Population Fund. But access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) has a major impact on people’s ability to prepare for, survive and recover from disasters. Data from the International Fede...
14 Mar 2019