Governments around the world have committed to tackling the global epidemic of Non-Communicable Diseases. Millions of lives are at stake, but there is a big gap between government commitment and action. We are working with our partners in the NCD Alliance to call for action and accountability when it comes to addressing NCDs including stroke.
Ensuring accountability is one of the key roles of NCD civil society along with increasing awareness, ensuring access to services and advocating for action.
This role can help achieve and accelerate government action and policy coherence, as well as responsive and coherent health systems and policies. Acquiring monitoring and accountability skills is a key capacity need of NCD alliances.
Civil society can hold decision-makers across all sectors to account against their commitments, ensuring they
have information to continuously make improvements, meet health needs, and respect the rights and needs of people living with NCDs, placing them at the center of their efforts.
Data on cause-specific mortality to characterise the risk and trends in NCD mortality in each country and evaluate combinations of reductions in NCD causes of death that can achieve SDG target 3.4.
Among NCDs, ischaemic heart disease is responsible for the highest risk of premature death in more than half of all countries for women, and more than three-quarters for men. However, stroke, other cardiovascular diseases, and some cancers are associated with a similar risk, and in many countries, a higher risk of premature death than ischaemic heart disease.
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Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
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WHO editorial identifying five overarching developments and lessons that will be critical to expanding access to medicines and health products for NCDs and mental health, with a view on the role of WHO.
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