WHO global report on sodium intake reduction
<p>The world is off track to meet its target of reducing salt intake by almost a third by 2025, costing thousands of lives, according to this new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).</p>
Non Communicable Diseases
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Implementation roadmap for accelerating the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in South-East Asia 2022–2030
This roadmap aims to facilitate progress towards the 2030 targets, and was adopted in September 2022 at the Seventy-fifth Session of the WHO Regional Committee. It includes three strategic directions,
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Global status report on physical activity 2022
This Global status report on physical activity is WHO’s first dedicated global assessment of global progress on country implementation of policy recommendations of the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity
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Invisible numbers: the true extent of noncommunicable diseases and what to do about them
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – chief among them, cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases – along with mental health, cause nearly three
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United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases: 2022–2025 strategy
The strategy builds on the experience of the 2019–2021 strategy and the findings of the mid-point evaluation of the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2013–2030. The strategy builds
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Action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in South-East Asia, 2013–2020: extended to 2030
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death globally as well as in the South-East Asia Region. The Global Action Plan (GAP) for the prevention and control of NCDs 2013–2020, including
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World report on the health of refugees and migrants
<p>Around the world, millions of refugees and migrants in vulnerable situations, such as low-skilled migrant workers, face poorer health outcomes than their host communities, especially where living and working conditions are sub-standard, according to this report by the WHO.</p>
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Roadmap for implementing the global action plan on physical activity in the WHO South-East Asia region
Sedentary lifestyle and physical inactivity are among the major behavioural risk factors for many noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and quality of life and well-being. The available data show that the
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Saving lives, spending less: the case for investing in noncommunicable diseases
A new WHO report shows that close to 7 million deaths could be prevented by 2030 if low- and lower-middle-income countries were to make an additional investment of less than a dollar per person per year
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WHO/ILO joint estimates of the work-related burden of disease and injury, 2000-2016: global monitoring report
Work-related diseases and injuries were responsible for the deaths of 1.9 million people in 2016, according to the first joint estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Labour