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Tag - Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

The costs and affordability of drug treatments for type 2 diabetes and hypertension in Vanuatu

by Ian Anderson, Amanda Sanburg, Howard Aru, Len Tarivonda, Susan Ivatts, Rufina Latu and Jacob Kool
Feb, 2014
Obesity, COVID-19 and the Asia-Pacific

Obesity, COVID-19 and the Asia-Pacific

by Ian Anderson
May 13, 2021

The Pacific food revolution will be televised

by Mark Peter Notaras
April 8, 2021
Participants in one of the cooking workshops held as part of the NCDs Prevention Roadshow

On the road to reduce NCDs in Nauru

by James Yu, Chih-Chen Chou and Stacey Cain
December 2, 2020
Danumurthi Mahendra/Flickr/CC BY 2.0

Smoking on the rise in Indonesia, and other recent WHO NCD findings

by Ian Anderson
March 13, 2019
A patient getting a health screening as part of a diabetes program in Bangalore, India (Trinity Care Foundation/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Responding to the NCD epidemic in the Asia Pacific region: supporting accountability

by Barbara McPake, Alan Lopez and Brian Oldenburg
April 27, 2018
Discussing diabetes prevention at a health fair in Tonga during Pacific Partnership 2013 (US Pacific Fleet/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)

NCD prevention and control: special challenges in the Pacific

by Ian Anderson
April 18, 2018
65th World Health Assembly (2012) (United States Mission Geneva/Flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0)

Latest findings on non-communicable diseases: what is happening in Asia and the Pacific?

by Ian Anderson
April 16, 2018
St Margaret's Hospital, PNG (Christopher John SSF/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

Effect of Australia’s regional health security initiative on national health security of poorly resourced countries

by Mahomed Patel and Christine Phillips
December 7, 2017
Diabetes check-up, Norsup hospital, Malekula Island, Vanuatu 2007 (Flickr/DFAT/Rob Maccoll for AusAID CC BY 2.0)

Knowledge of sickness and healing, medical pluralism, and health seeking in Vanuatu

by John Taylor and Lana Elliott
February 20, 2017
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