This booklet presents data on NCD mortality and prevalence of NCD risk factors, by country, for the Region of the Americas. The focus is on the 5 x 5 NCD agenda which includes the main NCDs (cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases), and mental health (suicide); as... well as the main NCD risk factors (tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet, insufficient physical activity), along with air pollution. It includes information on the number and percentage of deaths, age-standardized death rates, premature death from NCDs and the prevalence of NCD risk f actors.
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Further analysis of the 1996, 2001, and 2006 Demographic and Health Surveys Data
Asia-Pacific Human Development Report
Report
A Project of the Joep Lange Institute July, 2018
Lancet Planet Health 2021; 5: e93–101
DHS Analytical Studies No. 39
On average across 34 countries, more than half of all adults surveyed (56%) say climate change has already had a severe effect in the area where they live. More than seven in ten (71%), including a majority in every single country, expect climate change will have a severe effect in their area over t...he next 10 years. One-third (35%) expect to be displaced from their home as a result of climate change in the next 25 years.
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Achieving Quality Health Care in Bangladesh:
2014 Bangladesh Health Facility Survey (BHFS)
NGO Social Contracting
Sustainable Financing of National HIV Responses