Tag - Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

Danumurthi Mahendra/Flickr/CC BY 2.0

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

March 13, 2019

by Ian Anderson

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

April 27, 2018

by Barbara McPake, Alan Lopez, Brian Oldenburg

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

April 18, 2018

by Ian Anderson

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?

April 16, 2018

by Ian Anderson

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

December 7, 2017

by Mahomed Patel, Christine Phillips

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

February 20, 2017

by John Taylor, Lana Elliott

WHO response on Pacific diabetes prevalence

November 8, 2016

by Leanne Riley, Douglas Bettcher

2016 Pacific NCD Summit (image: SPC)

Diabetes remains major health challenge in the Pacific

October 26, 2016

by Colin Tukuitonga

Doing homework in Delmas 32, Haiti (Flickr/World Bank/Dominic Chavez CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Is development destiny? The 2015 GBD report

October 14, 2016

by Camilla Burkot

Figure 1: Breakdown of treatment costs for clients seen at DFC versus hospital admissions

Cutting costs while improving care: Samoa’s Diabetic Foot Clinic

October 13, 2016

by Katrina McGrath