Publications
Key publications
What is the effectiveness of systematic population-level screening programmes for reducing the burden of cardiovascular diseases? (2021)
This systematic literature review assesses whether systematic screening programmes for CVD risk factors and preclinical CVDs across general populations can lower the CVD burden in society.
CVD ASSESS tool
Preventing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in primary health care: assessing essential interventions using routine data (CVD ASSESS)
Time to Deliver in Europe. Meeting noncommunicable disease targets to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (2019)
This short report sets out some of the key messages and shared learning from the first European high-level conference on NCDs held in Ashgabat in December 2013.
Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in Kazakhstan. The case for investment (2019)
This report provides evidence through three analyses that NCDs reduce economic output and discusses potential options in response, outlining details of their relative returns on investment.
Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in Turkey - The case for investment (2018)
An intervention costing analysis provides an estimate of the funding required to implement a set of policy interventions for prevention and clinical interventions.
Review of acute care and rehabilitation services for heart attack and stroke in Kyrgyzstan (2017)
A WHO review of acute and rehabilitative services for heart attack and stroke took place in October 2016.
Workshop on implementation of a package of essential noncommunicable (PEN) disease interventions for primary health care in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 17–19 May 2016
The meeting aimed to support member countries in the implementation of the WHO PEN protocols and to establish a platform for regular discussion of issues of common interest in their implementation.
Implementation of a package of essential noncommunicable (PEN) disease interventions in Kyrgyzstan (2017)
The country has been operating the PEN protocols for one year, at the end of which WHO carried out an evaluation of their implementation.
Workshop on implementation of the Package of essential noncommunicable (PEN) disease interventions for primary health care in the central Asian republics, 8–9 October 2015
This workshop reviewed progress with the implementation of the WHO Package of essential noncommunicable (WHO PEN) disease interventions.
Bibione. Breathe by the sea. The story of a smoke-free beach in Italy (2014)
It documents a local initiative for a smoke-free beach employing whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches to address smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke in public settings.
Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in the European Region: a progress report (2014)
This report aims to demonstrate achievements made in the various proposed action areas, reporting the activities already undertaken and future plans, through presentation of data for the region derived from WHO’s NCD Country Capacity Survey 2013.
Brochure, 13-10-2020
Sitges, Spain, 16–18 April 2018
Information about NCDs for every Member State, available as a full report or as individual profiles by country
Baku, Azerbaijan, 15 September 2011
Baku, Azerbaijan, 12-15 September 2011
WHO headquarters, 2011: Demonstrates inequities in access to protection, exposure to risk, and access to care as the cause of major inequalities between countries and populations in the occurrence and outcome of CVDs. Also includes graphs showing mortality rates by age, country and region.
World Bank, 2005
Schwappach DLB, et al. Cost effectiveness and resource allocation, 2007, 5:5.
