1. Information resources on the Internet for NCD prevention and control
Dr A. Chiolero, MD MSc
Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine
(IUMSP)
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2nd WHO-IUMSP International Seminar on the Public Health Aspect of Non-communicable Diseases
18 August 2010
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Examples of information resources on the Internet for NCD prevention and control
1. World Health Organisation (WHO)
2. Supercourse
3. Procor
4. Globalink
5. 3four50.com
6. Centers for diseases control and prevention (CDC)
7. National institue for Health and Clinical Excellence - NICE
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World Health Organisation (WHO)
WHO
Chronic diseases
WHO Noncommunicable diseases Action Plan
Integrated chronic disease prevention and control
WHO database
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World Health Organisation (WHO)
Burden of diseases
Country information
Impact of chronic diseases
Questions:
What is the proportion of deaths due to CVD and cancer in India and Brazil?
What is the proportion of deaths due to CVD and cancer in low, middle and high income countries?
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Burden of diseases
More information on burden of diseases
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
The Global Burden of Diseases Study
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World Health Organisation (WHO)
A. Surveillance in adults
STEPwise approach to surveillance (STEPS)
Questions:
What is the percentage of adults who currently smoke tobacco in Malawi and in Indonesia?
What is the the percentage of adults who are obese in Indonesia?
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World Health Organisation (WHO)
B. Surveillance in youth
Global school-based student health survey (GSHS)
Questions:
1. What is the percentage of students who had at least one drink containing alcohol
over one or more days during the past 30 days in Swaziland and Tanzania (Dar Es Salaam)?
2. What is the percentage of students who smoked cigarettes over one or more days
during the past 30 days in India and in the Seychelles?
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Supercourse
Supercourse
- a repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention.
- has a network of over scientists in 174 countries, sharing for free a library of 4421 lectures in 31 languages.
- has been produced at the WHO Collaborating Center University of Pittsburgh, with Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D., Faina Linkov, Ph.D., Mita Lovalekar, M.D., Ph.D., and Eugene Shubnikov M.D.
Please contact us at
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Supercourse
By topics, for instance:
Concepts of Epidemiology Course by Raj Bhohal (10 lectures in English and 1
in Spanish)
Epidemiology Course by Nigel Paneth (22 lectures in English, Spanish Version translated by Nicolas Padilla and lectures in Portuguese, translated by Maria Rita Barros Justino)
Health Care in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities
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Supercourse
By authors, for instance:
S.N. Blair: Physical Inactivity: The Most Important Public Health Problem of the 21st Century
P. Bovet: Health transition and emerging cardiovascular disease in developing countries: situation and strategies for prevention. Part I Part II Part III
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Procor
ProCor
- promotes CVD prevention in developing countries and low-resource settings through global knowledge sharing
- lots of information on research & networking!
For instance:
Knowledge, What We Know: Cardiovascular diseases
Action, What We Can Do: Community program
Global, Community, Working Together: Global Dialogue
an open discussion forum for questions, information exchange, and networking to find solutions and to shared challenges, moderated by ProCor
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Globalink
Globalink
- global tobacco control
- free tools, lists, list-servers, web-hosting, petitions for tobacco control and research
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3four50.com
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Centers for diseases control and prevention
CDC
- high quality information on chronic diseases and prevention
For instance:
For public health professionnals
Preventing chronic diseases (free access)
Healthy Living
Prevent Diabetes
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Centers for diseases control and prevention
The community guide
Guide to Community Preventive Services
- a free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community
- systematic reviews are used to answer these questions:
- which program and policy interventions have been proven effective?
- are there effective interventions that are right for my community?
- what might effective interventions cost; what is the likely return on investment?
For instance:
Tobacco Use
Cancer
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National institue for Health and Clinical Excellence - NICE
NICE
- independent organization for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health
- high quality information to promote good health and prevent ill health, based on the best evidence
For instance:
Clinical guidelines
- Type 2 diabetes: the management of type 2 diabetes
Public health guidance
- Alcohol-use disorders - preventing the development of hazardous and harmful drinking
- Guidance on the prevention of cardiovascular disease at the population level
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