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NCD Alliance Weekly Digest
Wöchentliche Presseschau der NCD Alliance
Global Development News
- UN News: UN officials say good urban design key to ensuring sustainable, inclusive cities
- UN News: Global response ‘keeps door open’ to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius – UN | First nine months of 2015 are hottest on record, UN agency reports
- UN Development Group: Mainstreaming the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- World Bank: Shutting doors on women: How countries are legally preventing half their population from reaching their full economic potential
- CGD: There’s No Magic Bullet, But We Have the Tools to Reduce Inequality
Global Health News
- WHO: Statement - The challenges of migration require migrant-sensitive health systems for today and for the future
- WHO: Pilot implementation of first malaria vaccine recommended by WHO advisory groups
- World Bank: Ending Poverty: How health and innovation can lead the way
- World Bank: South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI)
- Lancet: The World report on ageing and health: a policy framework for healthy ageing
- CGD: To Achieve Global Health “Convergence,” an Evolving Role for Health Aid
- Devex: Is the momentum right for universal health coverage?
- NEJM: The Future of Public Health
- Humanosphere: TB overtakes HIV/AIDS as leading infectious disease killer
- BMJ: Rebecca Stout: Refugees and their right to access healthcare in the UK
NCDs News
- UN News: Eleven major firms agree to promote inclusion of persons with disabilities – UN labour agency
- World Bank: Bringing Mental Health Services to Those Who Need Them Most
- Handicap International: Philippines: saving feet, one patient at a time
- DevPolicy: The Invisible Health Challenge for Aid and Humanitarian Action
- BioMed Central: Exercise reduces fatigue in cancer survivors
Risk Factor News
- UN News: New UN report links processed meats to cancer in humans; red meat also likely to cause the disease
- WHO: IARC monographs evaluate red and processed meats
- Lancet: Effect of low-fat diet interventions versus other diet interventions on long-term weight change in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Prescribing low-fat diets: useless for long-term weight loss?
- Public Health England: Designing a ‘whole systems approach’ to prevent and tackle obesity
- PLoS: Too much TV linked to 8 leading causes of death
- PLoS: Sweet tweets: How Big Soda uses Social Media to dilute critiques
- BMJ: An Australian perspective on tobacco control in the 21st Century
- BMJ: The problem with comparing meat and smoking cancer risk
- Handicap International: Five steps to a successful Walk
- WEF: Which countries consume the most added sugar?
- Guardian: Restaurant chains criticised over children's menus and soda refills
- Guardian: Radical action on childhood obesity will require political courage | Public Health England obesity report: the key points
- The Globalist: 6 Facts: The World’s Heavyweight Nations