Noncommunicable Disease Surveillance, Monitoring and Reporting
The main objective of the Surveillance, Monitoring and Reporting unit is to support the collection, analysis, and dissemination of country-level risk factor information to inform and improve public health policy.
Surveillance of noncommunicable diseases
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NCD data portal
The noncommunicable diseases data portal aims to raise awareness on progress in tackling NCDs and their risk factors and strengthen accountability for action by countries. It displays data to highlight current status of NCD mortality, morbidity and risk factor exposures, and track global and national progress against key targets, identify common challenges, and signpost useful resources.
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Small island developing states (SIDS) are a set of islands and coastal states that share similar sustainable development challenges, as a result of their...
15 September 2022
Invisible numbers: the true extent of noncommunicable diseases and what to do about...
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – chief among them, cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases...
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5 July 2023
Assessing national capacity for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases: report of the...
To assess national-level responses to NCDs, WHO has implemented NCD country capacity surveys periodically since 2001. This report is the latest in that...
Small island developing states (SIDS) are a set of islands and coastal states that share similar sustainable development challenges, as a result of their...
11 November 2022
Noncommunicable disease facility-based monitoring guidance
WHO has developed the Noncommunicable disease facility-based monitoring guidance for NCD patient and programme monitoring, including a framework and parsimonious...
11 April 2022
Noncommunicable Diseases Progress Monitor 2022
In May 2015 the World Health Organization published a Technical Note on how WHO will report in 2017 to the United Nations General Assembly on the progress...
On 1-2 March 2021WHO convened countries, experts and partners to review implementation of data collection for hypertension with a focus on HEARTS-S and...
3 September 2020
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on noncommunicable disease resources and services: results of a rapid...
This report presents the results of a rapid assessment conducted by the NCD Department in May 2020 detailing the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...
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