{"id":2023,"date":"2018-06-01T10:41:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T10:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2022-01-03T10:42:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T10:42:16","slug":"commission-calls-for-urgent-action-against-chronic-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"Commission calls for urgent action against chronic diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u0418\u0437\u0432\u043e\u0440: \u0421\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043a\u0430 \u0437\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u0430 \u043e\u0440\u0433\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0437\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0458\u0430 \u00a0&#8211; 01.06.2018<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 June 2018 &#8211; News Release<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Geneva<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) Independent High-level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) calls for urgent action to address chronic diseases and mental health disorders. It demands high-level political commitment and the immediate scaling up of actions to address the epidemic of NCDs, the world\u2019s leading causes of death and ill health.<\/p>\n<p>Collectively, cancer, diabetes, lung and heart diseases kill 41 million people annually, accounting for 71% of all deaths globally, 15 million of which occur between the ages of 30 and 70 years. The report focuses attention on growing, but often neglected, challenges like mental disorders and obesity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/ncds\/management\/time-to-deliver\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Time to deliver: report of the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President of Uruguay, Dr Tabar\u00e9 V\u00e1zquez,\u00a0 called on world leaders to \u201credouble efforts\u201d to meet the Sustainable Development Goals target to reduce premature death from NCDs by one-third by 2030 and to promote mental health and wellbeing: \u201cPreserving and improving people\u2019s quality of life is a way of enhancing human dignity in order to make progress in terms of economic growth, social justice and human coexistence,\u201d said Dr V\u00e1zquez, who presented the report to WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Geneva today. \u201cHealth is essential for peace and democracy. It is not a matter of spending a lot, but of making good investments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commission makes six recommendations in its report:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Heads of State and Government should take responsibility for the NCD agenda, rather than delegating it to ministers of health alone, as it requires collaboration and cooperation across many sectors.<\/li>\n<li>Governments should identify and implement a specific set of priorities within the overall NCD and mental health agenda, based on public health needs.<\/li>\n<li>Governments should reorient health systems to include NCDs prevention and control and mental health services in their universal health coverage policies and plans.<\/li>\n<li>Governments should increase effective regulation, appropriate engagement with the private sector, academia, civil society, and communities.<\/li>\n<li>Governments and the international community should develop a new economic paradigm for funding actions on NCDs and mental health.<\/li>\n<li>Governments need to strengthen accountability to their citizens for action on NCDs and simplify existing international accountability mechanisms.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u201cWe know the problem and we have the solutions, but unless we increase financing for NCDs, and demand all stakeholders be held responsible for delivering on their promises, we won\u2019t be able to accelerate progress,\u201d said Commission Co-chair Dr Sania Nishtar. \u201cThe NCDs epidemic has exploded in low- and middle-income countries over the last two decades. We need to move quickly to save lives, prevent needless suffering, and keep fragile health systems from collapsing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fulfilling the promise of universal health coverage, to ensure all people everywhere can access quality health services without suffering financial hardship, is one of WHO\u2019s top<\/p>\n<p>priorities. The Commission\u2019s report will help guide countries as they make progress toward health for all and tackle both NCDs and infectious killers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWHO was founded 70 years ago on the conviction that health is a human right to be enjoyed by all people, and not a privilege for the few,\u201d WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. \u201cThe recommendations of this report are an important step towards realizing that right by preventing the suffering and death caused by noncommunicable diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By calling on Heads of State and Government to take ultimate responsibility for NCDs, the report, which was also published simultaneously in the medical journal\u00a0<em>The Lancet<\/em>, recognizes the need to ensure that health ministries have the influence they require to ensure the issue is backed with the political will and funding it merits.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering the report to the WHO Director-General is the first activity of the Commission, which will continue to provide high-level support to the NCD community by catalyzing action and financing, especially in countries.<\/p>\n<p>On 27 September 2018, the United Nations General Assembly will host the Third High-level Meeting on NCDs in New York. The Commission\u2019s report will help advise WHO as it prepares for this crucial occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission\u2019s Co-chairs include the presidents of Finland, Sri Lanka and Uruguay, the Minister of Healthcare of the Russian Federation and Dr Sania Nishtar, a leading NCDs expert and advocate and a former federal minister of health from Pakistan.\u00a0The Commission comprises health\u00a0and development\u00a0leaders from governments, civil society and business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editors note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases and mental disorders, tend to be of long duration and are the result of a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioral factors. Tobacco use, physical inactivity, the harmful use of alcohol and unhealthy diets all increase the risk of dying from a NCD. Detection, screening and treatment of NCDs, as well as palliative care, are key components of the response to NCDs. WHO also recognizes that air pollution is a critical risk factor for NCDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0418\u0437\u0432\u043e\u0440: \u0421\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043a\u0430 \u0437\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u0430 \u043e\u0440\u0433\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0437\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0458\u0430 \u00a0&#8211; 01.06.2018 1 June 2018 &#8211; News Release Geneva A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) Independent High-level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) calls for urgent action to address chronic diseases and mental health&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vesti","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_series&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}