How can innovative data-driven approaches help tackle NCDs?
WHO
The technical meeting on 10 March 2015 in Tel Aviv, Israel, centred around real-life complexities in the prevention and control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs), and addressed how innovative data-driven approaches can assist in tackling them.
Two key types of complexities were discussed:
- The increasing trend of co-existing multiple risk factors for NCDs;
- complexities associated with NCD multimorbidity, which is becoming the norm among middle-aged adults.
Clalit Research Institute, the newly designated WHO Collaborating Centre for NCD Research, Prevention and Control that co-hosted the meeting, shared data and insights on the prevalence of these two phenomena, as well as hands-on experience in addressing them using data-driven innovative methods. Experts from ten Member States shared their experience and knowledge, and expressed the need for a new set of integrated tools to address these emerging issues.
