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World Health Organization (WHO)

World Health Statistics 2019: Monitoring health for the SDGs

Report

29 May 2019

World health statistics 2019 summarizes recent trends and levels in life expectancy and causes of death, and reports on the health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets. Where possible, the 2019 report disaggr...

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Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance

Universal Health Coverage and Palliative Care: Do not leave those suffering behind

Report

07 May 2019

&nbsp; This report, published on the first-ever Universal Health Coverage Day, highlights the current situation in relation to hospice and palliative care and UHC and makes recommendations for working towards the greater inclusion of palliative ca...

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Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS)

The Global Impact of Respiratory Disease

Report

07 May 2019

The purpose of this report is to call attention to the importance of respiratory health in the world and to raise it to be a top priority in global decision-making.

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Every Woman Every Child

Saving Lives Protecting Futures: Progress Report on Global Strategy for Women and Children's Health 2010-2015

Report

07 May 2019

This report measures progress of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goals 4, 5, and 6. The report also mentions areas that require heightened mobilization and development; lessons l...

ReportCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesGender, equity and human rightsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+7

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Follow-up to the high-level meetings of the United Nations General Assembly on NCDs

Report

24 Apr 2019

The report is submitted in response to resolution WHA71.2 (2018), which “requests the Director-General to report to the Seventy-second World Health Assembly, through the Executive Board, on the outcomes of the third High-level Meeting of the Genera...

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Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance

Palliative Care and the Global Goal for Health Report

Report

08 Apr 2019

The aim of the report is to show how the Global Goal for Health and accompanying targets could support a focus on improving palliative care for people with life-threatening and life-limiting illness globally and to make recommendations for inclusion...

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International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)

Global Framework for Capacity Building for Non-Communicable Disease Advocacy in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Report

08 Apr 2019

This document is a summary of two pilot NCD advocacy courses, one in Thailand and one in Colombia. A Global Advisory Group engaged a Local Organizing Committee in each country to ensure the courses would meet the needs of the local stakeholders. Whil...

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Public Health Institute (PHI)

Inspiring Youth, Growing Change: Nurturing strong minds for a healthy community

Report

08 Apr 2019

The goal of this report is to document changes resulting from local projects from the youth in the project to the built environment. It also seeks to capture an understanding of themes that can inform future health promotion and youth development wor...

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Medicines Patent Pool (MPP)

Exploring the Expansion of the Medicines Patent Pool’s Mandate to Patented Essential Medicines: A Feasibility Study of the Public Health Needs and Potential Impact

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2019

The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) conducted a feasibility study to assess the public health need for – and the feasibility and potential public health impact of – expanding its mandate from HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis C to patented essential me...

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WHO Regional Office for Europe

Time to Deliver in Europe: meeting noncommunicable disease targets to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Report

28 Feb 2019

The first European high-level conference on NCDs was held in Ashgabat in December 2013. It led to the adoption of the Ashgabat Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases in the Context of Health 2020. This year’s conferen...

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Transferability of health promotion and health education approaches between communicable and non-communicable diseases: Analysis of current evidence. Technical report

Report

25 Feb 2019

This review examined the approaches to the prevention of chronic diseases (also referred to as non-communicable diseases) that have been developed and used in health education and health promotion. The study assumed that many of the causal factors co...

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World Health Organization

General Meeting of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases: Meeting Report

Report

22 Feb 2019

On 5–6 November 2018, the first General Meeting of the GCM/NCD was held in Geneva, Switzerland, to reinforce the commitment of the participants to accelerated multisectoral and multistakeholder action to achieve SDG target 3.4

ReportMultisectoral ActionMultistakeholder CollaborationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing+1

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