Sentences with phrase «on noncommunicable»

«We are pleased that more and more people are being adequately warned about the dangers of tobacco use,» said Ala Alwan, a WHO expert on noncommunicable diseases and mental health.
After a summer of negotiations whose slow pace and political gaming has drawn the ire of numerous health advocacy organizations, representatives of U.N. member states appear to have come to a compromise on a political declaration document for the 19 September U.N. high - level meeting on the prevention and control of on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
They were specifically designed to support the WHO Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol and the UN Political Declarations on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs).

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The question that is raised in the documentary (and of course in the actual literature) is whether or not a general disregard for the impact of modern medical practices on the microbiome is responsible to some degree for the increase in noncommunicable disease.
Thus, NCD - RisC group started with this purpose, this group is a network of scientists around the world focused on health that provides rigorous and timely data about risk factors for noncommunicable diseases of 200 countries and regions.
The NCD - RisC group works closely with World Heath Organization (WHO) through a collaborating centre on surveillance of noncommunicable diseases and epidemiology at Imperial College London.
Tedros appointed Mugabe on 18 October as a WHO goodwill ambassador for noncommunicable diseases in Africa and then, following an uproar from the medical community and human rights groups, rescinded the posting 4 days later.
WHO's 194 Member States agreed on a global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) at the World Health Assembly in May.
Therefore, research proposals may focus on infectious and noncommunicable diseases as well as health service or policy - related issues — lab or field based.
Join us for a Chats in the Stacks talk to hear about the lives that dwell within us and their influence on the ongoing global epidemic of noncommunicable diseases.
The noncommunicable diseases associated with early childhood adversity have garnered a great deal of attention recently, as they are predicted to account for 90 % of the morbidity seen in high - income countries by the year 2030.62 Although this has prompted some to focus on the automatic brain processes that perpetuate the associated unhealthy lifestyles, 63 relatively little attention has been given to preventing or mitigating the toxic stress that allows these automatic processes and unhealthy behaviors to be learned and adopted in the first place.
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