Global Health diplomacy for noncommunicable diseases prevention and control: a systematic review

Global health diplomacy for obesity prevention: lessons from tobacco control.

To date the global health diplomacy agenda has focused primarily on infectious diseases. Policymakers have not dedicated the same level of attention to chronic diseases, despite their rising contribution to the global burden of disease. Negotiation of the Framework convention on tobacco control provides an apt example from global health diplomacy to tackle diet-related chronic diseases. What le...

Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases

School-based Prevention of Mosquito-borne Diseases: A Systematic Review

Background: Mosquito-borne diseases (MBDs) are among the important and highly complex issues in public health. School age children have been encouraged to participate in ongoing household MBDs control activities such as source reduction, as part of MBDs control efforts. Numerous school-based health education studies have been conducted worldwide on the interventions to prevent MBDs. However, th...

James Bond and Global Health Diplomacy

In the 21st Century, distinctions and boundaries between global health, international politics, and the broader interests of the global community are harder to define and enforce than ever before. As a result, global health workers, leaders, and institutions face pressing questions around the nature and extent of their involvement with non-health endeavors, including international conflict reso...

Tracking global funding for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases.

Editorials 479 Despite increased global aid for development and health – from 5.6 billion United States dollars (US$) in 1990 to US$ 21.8 billion in 2007 1 – donors and wider society have become sceptical about the benefits of this aid. This is reflected in a call recently issued by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Explorations programme for innovative ways to better con...