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- What Municipal Authorities, Local Governments and Ministries Responsible for Urban Planning Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [AR]
- What Municipal Authorities, Local Governments and Ministries Responsible for Urban Planning Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [CH]
- What Municipal Authorities, Local Governments and Ministries Responsible for Urban Planning Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [EN]
- What Municipal Authorities, Local Governments and Ministries Responsible for Urban Planning Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [FR]
- What Municipal Authorities, Local Governments and Ministries Responsible for Urban Planning Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [RU]
- What Municipal Authorities, Local Governments and Ministries Responsible for Urban Planning Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [SP]
- What Government Ministries Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [AR]
- What Government Ministries Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [CH]
- What Government Ministries Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [EN]
- What Government Ministries Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [FR]
- What Government Ministries Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [RU]
- What Government Ministries Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [SP]
- What Heads of State and Government Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [AR]
- What Heads of State and Government Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [CH]
- What Heads of State and Government Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [EN]
- What Heads of State and Government Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [FR]
- What Heads of State and Government Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [RU]
- What Heads of State and Government Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [SP]
- What Legislators Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [EN]
- What Legislators Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [SP]
- What Ministries of Agriculture Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [EN]
- What Ministries of Agriculture Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [SP]]
- What Ministries of Education Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [AR]
- What Ministries of Education Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [CH]
- What Ministries of Education Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [EN]
- What Ministries of Education Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [FR]
- What Ministries of Education Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [RU]
- What Ministries of Education Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [SP]
- What Ministries of Environment and Energy Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [EN]
- What Ministries of Environment and Energy Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [SP]
- What Ministries of Finance, Tax and Revenue Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [AR]
- What Ministries of Finance, Tax and Revenue Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [CH]
- What Ministries of Finance, Tax and Revenue Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [EN]
- What Ministries of Finance, Tax and Revenue Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [FR]
- What Ministries of Finance, Tax and Revenue Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [RU]
- What Ministries of Finance, Tax and Revenue Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [SP]
- What Ministries of Information and Communications Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [AR]
- What Ministries of Information and Communications Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [CH]
- What Ministries of Information and Communications Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [EN]
- What Ministries of Information and Communications Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [FR]
- What Ministries of Information and Communications Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [RU]
- What Ministries of Information and Communications Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [SP]
- What Ministries of Labour and Employment Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [AR]
- What Ministries of Labour and Employment Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [CH]
- What Ministries of Labour and Employment Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [EN]
- What Ministries of Labour and Employment Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [FR]
- What Ministries of Labour and Employment Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [RU]
- What Ministries of Labour and Employment Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [SP]
- What Ministries of Youth and Sport Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [EN]
- What Ministries of Youth and Sport Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [SP]
- What Trade and Industry Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [AR]
- What Trade and Industry Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [CH]
- What Trade and Industry Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [EN]
- What Trade and Industry Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [FR]
- What Trade and Industry Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [RU]
- What Trade and Industry Need to Know About Noncommunicable Diseases [SP]
What Government Ministries Need to Know about Non-communicable Diseases
What Government Ministries Need to Know about Non-communicable Diseases
May 23, 2018
This set of briefs, produced by WHO and UNDP, provide policy and decision makers across government with information on how non-communicable diseases (NCDs) impact their sector, and the proactive steps they can take to respond to the challenges while advancing their own objectives and accountabilities.
NCDs – principally cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory disease – are the world’s biggest killers. Urgent and whole-of government action is needed to prevent the annual toll of 15 million people who die prematurely, between the ages of 30 and 69, from NCDs. Often misconstrued as a problem of high-income countries, NCDs place an equal – if not greater – burden on low– and middle-income countries (LMICs). Over 80 percent of premature NCD deaths occur in LMICs.
Most premature NCD deaths are preventable by taking cost-effective action to tackle four main behavioural risk factors – tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, physical inactivity and unhealthy diet. Addressing environmental risks (e.g. air pollution) is also key.
Tackling NCDs and their risk factors requires a response from government sectors beyond health. Multi-sectoral action for NCDs, endorsed in the 2011 Political Declaration on the Prevention and Control of NCDs and in numerous other high-level political decisions, is not a zero sum game. It is possible to identify strategies and approaches that deliver shared gains and co-benefits for all sectors involved.