COPSAC Retreat TRANSLATIONAL CLINICAL RESEARCH IN CHILDREN Shared Origins in Early Life of Chronic Disorders COPSAC Retreat, June 19th -20th, 2013 Increasing frequency of asthma, eczema, allergy, diabetes, obesity, inflammatory bowel diseases, cognitive and motoric development, behavioral disturbances as well as diseases related to disturbed growth and reproductive development now represents significant societal and scientific challenges....

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8th Global Conference on Health Promotion

The 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion (8GCHP) focuses on how to promote health and equity by implementing the Health in All Policies approach - an approach to public policies across sectors that systematically takes the health implications of decisions into account. The key outcomes of the Conference will be a conference statement and "Health in All Policies (HiAP) Framework for Country Action” which will give countries concrete guidance...

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Summer programme on noncommunicable diseases and the law

The summer programme will bring together leading practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and academics in global health to explore the role and implications of law in the global response to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). It will take place at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University on 17-21 June 2013, in Washington D.C., USA. Through interactive lectures, panels, and case studies, participants...

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Noncommunicable diseases - WHO European Region

A relatively small group of health conditions is responsible for a large part of the disease burden in Europe. Of the six WHO regions, the European Region is the most affected by noncommunicable diseases, and their growth is startling. The impact of the major noncommunicable diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and mental disorders) is equally alarming: taken together, these five conditions account...

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Risk Targets and Risk Factors

Who is at risk of such diseases? All age groups and all regions are affected by NCDs. NCDs are often associated with older age groups, but evidence shows that more than 9 million of all deaths attributed to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) occur before the age of 60. Of these "premature" deaths, 90% occurred in low- and middle-income countries. Children, adults and the elderly are all vulnerable to the risk factors that contribute to noncommunicable diseases, whether from unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, exposure to tobacco smoke or the...

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Prevention and control of NCD's

Prevention and control of NCD's To lessen the impact of NCDs on individuals and society, a comprehensive approach is needed that requires all sectors, including health, finance, foreign affairs, education, agriculture, planning and others, to work together to reduce the risks associated with NCDs, as well as promote the interventions to prevent and control them. An important way to reduce NCDs is to focus on lessening the risk factors associated with these diseases. Low-cost solutions exist to reduce the common modifiable risk factors (mainly...

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Socioeconomic impacts of NCD's

What are the socioeconomic impacts of NCDs? NCDs threaten progress towards the UN Millennium Development Goals. Poverty is closely linked with NCDs. The rapid rise in NCDs is predicted to impede poverty reduction initiatives in low-income countries, particularly by forcing up household costs associated with health care. Vulnerable and socially disadvantaged people get sicker and die sooner than people of higher social positions, especially because they are at greater risk of being exposed to harmful products, such as tobacco or unhealthy food,...

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