Addressing the unmet needs of people living with diabetes: 100 years after the discovery of insulin
2021 represents the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin and the official launch of the new WHO Global Diabetes Compact. Still,...
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Nalini Saligram & Deepa Prahalad - United States of America
- 5 min
Reflecting on women and NCDs in COVID-19 times
Before the pandemic crisis, women’s lives were already heavily affected by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), as women constitute the...
dmaccounts
- 7 min
Building Back Better: Investing in healthy populations and resilient health systems for NCDs and men
An open letter to Heads of State and Government The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exacerbated deep inequalities in our...
Thomas Roades & Andrea Feigl - United States of America
- 7 min
Blended finance solutions to the NCD funding gap
Funding for noncommunicable disease care doesn’t match the need, but blended finance is a promising opportunity. The views expressed are...
dmaccounts
- 2 min
The heavy burden of poor health
Non-communicable diseases, obesity and the covid-19 impetus for building better health systems Audio: Listen to the introduction The...
Andrea Chipman — United Kingdom
- 8 min
Pandemic builds potential for better global health
The novel coronavirus pandemic has exposed the fault lines in both global and national health infrastructures, highlighting inequalities...
Ben Hirschler - United Kingdom
- 11 min
The hidden health crisis
A decade of initiatives to combat non-communicable diseases have failed to curb their growth. Policymakers need a more comprehensive...
Andrea Chipman — United Kingdom
- 3 min
Obesity casts a big shadow
Rates of obesity are skyrocketing, and more comprehensive policies are needed to fully address the complex causes of the condition Audio:...
Danny Buckland — United Kingdom
- 6 min
A ruinous epidemic
The obesity crisis has been a long time in the making, gathering force despite more than a decade of individual initiatives to reduce the...
Jo Waters — United Kingdom
- 8 min
Disease in disguise
As obesity reaches epidemic levels globally, experts are reflecting on the mixed results of policies implemented over the past decade and...
dmaccounts
- 1 min
NCDs in numbers
Key figures on the prevalence and funding of non-communicable diseases Spending misalignment Diseases with the highest mortality receive...
Christine Michael — United States
- 7 min
Double burden on the poor
Populations in more than one in three low-income countries are hit by a double burden of malnutrition in the form of both obesity and...
Becky McCall — United Kingdom
- 8 min
Contagion of a social kind
Non-communicable diseases and their risk factors seem to be common among certain groups of friends and families. Genetic reasons aside,...
Jo Waters — United Kingdom
- 7 min
Coronavirus could spur reforms to improve health of city dwellers
The number of people living in cities is projected to rise from 55 % to 68 % of the world’s population by 2050, according to the United...
Danny Buckland — United Kingdom
- 5 min
The promise and challenge of health tech
Can information technology save the world from the rising burden of ill-health? And can personal data be guarded with sufficient...
Katie Dain — United Kingdom & Lobna Salem — US
- 4 min
Digital health care can bring fairer access for all
Digital health solutions have the potential to enhance the reach and capacity of the health workforce and the efficiency of health...
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