Resource Pack: Global Noncommunicable Diseases
2024
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) now outnumber infectious disease as the top killers globally. This resource pack supports teaching and learning about NCDs, relevant risk factors, social determinants, and responses from within and outside the health sector to mitigate their impact.
This pack deliberatively focuses on cardiovascular disease and stroke, chronic lung disease, diabetes and cancers, which are responsible for approximately 75% of NCD’s, as well as their often shared risk factors such as tobacco, alcohol, poor diet, physical inactivity and overweight and obesity.
Resources include global reports, review articles, country profiles, fact sheets and data, some of which focus on the general category of NCD’s and some of which focus on one particular disease area or risk factor. Irrespective of focus, they collectively illuminate the impact of social determinants on disparities and inequities across socioeconomic position, race and ethnicity, educational status, and gender.
The most recent data reveals that the global community is not on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, despite their being evidence-based interventions and policies that would be effective if implemented. While several of the global reports provide an overview of global and regional progress, country profiles, case studies and data interactives allow learners to explore how individual countries are doing.
Resource Pack: Global Noncommunicable Disease
Source:
Resource Pack: Global Noncommunicable Disease. Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University 2024. https://repository.gheli.harvard.edu/repository/collection/resource-pack-noncommunicable-disease.