Assessing National Capacity for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases : 2019 Global Survey.

Bibliographic Details
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Geneva : World Health Organization, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Acronyms
  • Foreword
  • Executive summary
  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Data collection, review and validation
  • Questionnaire
  • Response rate
  • Analysis
  • Results
  • Aspects of NCD infrastructure
  • Unit, branch or department responsible for NCDs
  • Funding mechanisms
  • Fiscal interventions
  • Multisectoral commissions, agencies, or mechanisms
  • Plans, policies and strategies
  • National health plans and targets
  • Policies addressing the major NCDs and their risk factors
  • NCD-related research
  • Physical activity guidelines
  • Marketing to children
  • Food regulation and policy
  • Public awareness campaigns and mass participation events
  • mHealth initiatives
  • Surveillance
  • Surveillance responsibility
  • Civil and vital registration systems reporting mortality by cause
  • Cancer registries
  • Diabetes registries
  • Service availability and readiness
  • Risk factor surveys
  • Health systems capacity
  • NCD-related guidelines
  • Cancer screening programmes
  • Early detection of cancers
  • Availability of tests and procedures for early detection, diagnosis and monitoring of NCDs
  • Availability of medicines in the public health sector
  • Procedures for treating NCDs
  • Cancer diagnosis and treatment
  • Palliative care
  • Cardiovascular risk stratification
  • Care of acute stroke and rehabilitation
  • Registers and follow up systems for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
  • Discussion
  • Key findings
  • Infrastructure, governance and financing
  • Policies, action plans and strategies
  • NCD surveillance
  • NCD management
  • Strengths and limitations of the survey
  • Conclusion
  • Priorities for further action
  • (i) Fiscal interventions
  • (ii) Multisectoral coordination
  • (iii) Policy implementation
  • (iv) NCD Best Buys and other recommended interventions
  • (v) Sustained surveillance.
  • (vi) NCD screening, diagnosis and treatment
  • References
  • Annexes
  • Annexes
  • Annex 1: WHO Member States and survey respondents
  • Annex 2: List of countries by World Bank income group
  • Annex 3: Country Profile of Capacity and Response to Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs)
  • Glossary.