Finance, data and technology initiatives for noncommunicable disease control.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Feb 21;97(2):166-168. Epub 2018 Dec 21.
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, P.O. Box 100, 33014, Tampere, Finland.
Systems approaches to global and national physical activity plans.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Feb 19;97(2):162-165. Epub 2018 Dec 19.
Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Climate change, air pollution and noncommunicable diseases.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Feb 19;97(2):160-161. Epub 2018 Dec 19.
Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization, avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
Development of a sweetened beverage tax, Philippines.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Feb 1;97(2):154-159. Epub 2018 Dec 1.
Strategy, Economics and Results Group, Department of Finance, Manila, Philippines.
Problem: Both sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and the incidence of obesity have increased in the Philippines in recent years.
Integrating noncommunicable disease services into primary health care, Botswana.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Feb 8;97(2):142-153. Epub 2019 Jan 8.
Implementation of national action plans on noncommunicable diseases, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Feb 19;97(2):129-141. Epub 2018 Dec 19.
International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Tivanond Road, Muang District, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand.
The palm oil industry and noncommunicable diseases.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Feb 8;97(2):118-128. Epub 2018 Jan 8.
College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, England.
Legal capacities required for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Feb 20;97(2):108-117. Epub 2018 Nov 20.
Health Systems Development Department, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
Modelling the impact of a tax on sweetened beverages in the Philippines: an extended cost-effectiveness analysis.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Feb 5;97(2):97-107. Epub 2018 Dec 5.
Food and Nutrition Research Institute, Department of Science and Technology, Manila, Philippines.
Objective: To assess the potential impact of a new tax on sweetened beverages on premature deaths associated with noncommunicable diseases in the Philippines.
World Trade Organization membership and changes in noncommunicable disease risk factors: a comparative interrupted time-series analysis, 1980-2013.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Feb 6;97(2):83-96A. Epub 2018 Nov 6.
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Objective: To investigate the relationship between joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the availability of several commodities with both harmful and protective effects for the development of noncommunicable diseases.
Kalpana Balakrishnan: the power of data to drive positive change.
Implications of self-care for health service provision.
Defeat NCD Partnership, United Nations Office for Project Services, Geneva, Switzerland.
Actions needed to prevent noncommunicable diseases and improve mental health.
Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, The World Bank Group, Washington DC, USA.
Overcoming internal challenges and external threats to noncommunicable disease control.
International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Tiwanon Road, Muang District, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand.
Indigenous language and inequitable maternal health care, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Jan 31;97(1):59-67. Epub 2018 Oct 31.
Public Health Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcalá, Crtra Madrid-Barcelona Km 33.6, Alcalá de Henares, 28871, Spain.
Canine rabies control and human exposure 1951-2015, Guangzhou, China.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Jan 27;97(1):51-58. Epub 2018 Nov 27.
Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 1 Qi De road, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, China.
Objective: To describe changes in rabies surveillance and management in Guangzhou, China between 1951 and 2015, and to analyse human rabies cases over that period.
National age-of-consent laws and adolescent HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a propensity-score matched study.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Jan 20;97(1):42-50. Epub 2018 Nov 20.
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
Objective: To estimate the association between legal age of consent and coverage of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing among adolescents in countries with high HIV-burden.
HIV prevalence in young people and children living on the streets, Kenya.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Jan 6;97(1):33-41. Epub 2018 Nov 6.
School of Medicine, Moi University College of Health Sciences, Eldoret, Kenya.
Objective: To obtain an estimate of the size of, and human immunodeficiency (HIV) prevalence among, young people and children living on the streets of Eldoret, Kenya.
Using the polio programme to deliver primary health care in Nigeria: implementation research.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 01 6;97(1):24-32. Epub 2018 Nov 6.
National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria.
Objective: To evaluate a project that integrated essential primary health-care services into the oral polio vaccine programme in hard-to-reach, underserved communities in northern Nigeria.
Multimorbidity and care for hypertension, diabetes and HIV among older adults in rural South Africa.
Bull World Health Organ 2019 Jan 31;97(1):10-23. Epub 2018 Oct 31.
Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA.
Objective: To examine how multimorbidity might affect progression along the continuum of care among older adults with hypertension, diabetes and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in rural South Africa.
Catalina Devandas Aguilar: empowering people with disabilities.