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Non-communicable diseases: 2015 to 2025
Document Library
February 24, 2014

In 2012, the World Health Assembly endorsed an important new health goal: to reduce avoidable mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by 25% by 2025 (the 25 by 25 goal). It remains a truth today that, despite global rhetoric and resolutions, chronic NCDs remain the least recognised group of conditions that threaten the future of human… Read more

Noncommunicable Diseases Country Profiles 2011
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February 24, 2014

The report features information about the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) situation in 193 countries. This includes details of what proportion of each country’s deaths are due to diseases such as cancer, heart and lung diseases, and diabetes. Using graphs, on a page-per country presentation format, the report provides information on prevalence, trends in metabolic risk factors… Read more

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Health and Nutrition for Displaced Populations
Helpdesk Report
December 20, 2013

Findings on health and nutrition management of protracted population displacement include: A synthesis of food assistance programme evaluations finds unacceptably high numbers of refugees were food-insecure, women more so than men. A review of nutrition indicators evaluating performance of nutrition programmes in more than 90 camps in 18 countries found supplementary and therapeutic feeding programmes… Read more

Gender, protracted displacement, psychosocial impacts
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The Financial Burden from Non-Communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-income Countries: a literature review
Document Library
August 30, 2013

Document Summary: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) were previously considered to only affect high-income countries. However, they now account for a very large burden in terms of both mortality and morbidity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), although little is known about the impact these diseases have on households in these countries. This paper presents a literature… Read more

Diabetes, NCDs
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John Walley on improving health service delivery for chronic disease in primary care: using the COMDIS Health Service Delivery (HSD) approach
HEART talks
June 13, 2013

John Walley is a Professor of International Public Health at the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, University of Leeds. He is also the Co-Research Director of the Health Service Delivery Research Programme Consortium (COMDIS-HSD). COMDIS-HSD is a £7.5 million DFID funded, seven country research programme, incorporating service delivery themes ofprimary care, urban health,… Read more

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Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases: Guidelines for primary health care in low-resource settings
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June 13, 2013

This document includes the following two guidelines: Diagnosis and management of type 2 diabetes in primary health care in low-resource settings: The primary goal of this guideline is to improve the quality of care and the outcome in people with type 2 diabetes in low-resource settings. It recommends a set of basic interventions to integrate… Read more

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Cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and hypertension in adults: case management desk guide
Document Library
June 13, 2013

This is a generic desk guide for managing cardiovascular disease, diabetes and hypertension in adults in LMICs. This desk guide is a concise “quick reference” for doctors, clinical officers, paramedics, nurses and counsellors to use when providing routine care and health education to all patients.  The initial assessment pages are designed for use with any… Read more

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Nutrition
Fetal Health and NCDs
Helpdesk Report
June 14, 2011

This report gives an overview of the evidence about the relationship between gestational nutrition, and disposal to non communicable diseases. It notes that smaller size at birth appears to be more related to chronic disease when due to intrauterine growth rather than premature birth. Maternal and fetal nutrition are related to size at birth. The… Read more

Barker Hypothesis, Cancer, Diabetes, Fetal, Fetal Nutrition, Gestational Nutrition, Health, Heart Disease, Lifecourse Approach, Lung Disease, Maternal, Maternal Nutrition, NCDs, Non Communicable Diseases, Nutrition, Preterm, Risk
Health
Nutrition
Salt Intake
Helpdesk Report
May 20, 2011

There is mixed evidence of the extent of the problem of high salt intake in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Different reports and different unit measurements make it hard to compare and assess data. Data suggests: a significant problem in India a moderate problem in South Africa and Zimbabwe a potential problem in Nigeria… Read more

Africa, Health, Nutrition, Salt, South Asia
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Non-Communicable Diseases
Helpdesk Report
April 13, 2011

This report includes sections on: Burden: This section includes cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease and the evolution of NCDs in developing countries; in 1990 they caused 47% of all deaths, 56% in 2000 and it is estimated they will cause 69% of deaths in 2020. Age Structure: Studies have found that NCD risk factors increase… Read more

Age, Burden, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Elderly, MDGs, Non Communicable Diseases, Poverty, Urbanisation, Urbanization
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DFID Support to the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Context
Assignment
March 12, 2011

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) have tended to receive little attention because of the once-widespread assumption that people at risk of NTDs experience relatively little morbidity, and that these diseases have low rates of mortality. These views have been comprehensively refuted (WHO 2010a). NTDs have a substantial health and economic burden on poor populations. They cause… Read more

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