United Nations releases draft strategy for noncommunicable diseases

United Nations releases draft strategy for noncommunicable diseases.

encouraging “whole-of-society” efforts, strengthening national policies, reducing risk factors, increasing international cooperation and improving research and monitoring lie at the core of a draft United Nations (UN) plan to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The draft “outcome document” will be the basis for the high-level UN summit on noncommunicable diseases to be held in ...

Rallying United Nations organizations in the fight against noncommunicable diseases.

Editorials 623 Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), namely cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes , cause 63% of the world's total mortality. 1 Of the premature deaths from NCDs that occur in people between the ages of 30 and 70 years, 86% – i.e. approximately 12 million – occur in developing countries. 2 The cumulative economic losses to low-and middle-income c...

Expectations for the United Nations high-level meeting on noncommunicable diseases.

The United Nations General Assembly’s decision to convene a high-level meeting on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide in September 2011 is a major, timely opportunity to elevate chronic diseases onto the global stage and to encourage action by individual governments.1 Just as the 2001 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS was a pivotal m...

Development at risk: addressing noncommunicable diseases at the United Nations high-level meeting.

Noncommunicable diseases.

From the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (D.J.H.); the Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi (K.S.R.); and the World Heart Federation, Geneva (K.S.R.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Hunter at the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115, or at [email protected]...