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In less than six months, the world will adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), renewing global development efforts for all nations. This brief addresses actions needed between now and September 2015 to ensure that global and national monitoring frameworks include relevant indicators for children and adolescents.
The global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) threatens the health, wellbeing and prosperity of all people everywhere. National governments, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) all recognize the need to prevent, treat and manage these diseases and address their social determinants, reduce exposure to risk factors, and build stronger and more sustainable health systems.
Provides an informative summary of Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In 2014, the WHO report Health for the World’s Adolescents showed that considerable gains from investments in maternal and child health programmes are at risk of being lost without corresponding investments in adolescent health. The latest data show that more than 3,000 adolescent die every day from largely preventable causes, and that many key risk factors for future adult disease start or are consolidated in adolescence. Adolescent mental health and well-being are often overlooked.
In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, with the global community looking on, adopted the new global agenda for sustainable development. Presenting and approving an outcome document titled,
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” the Assembly gave way to a new era in meeting global challenges. In the outcome document, a Declaration of the Assembly states, “On behalf of
the peoples we serve, we have adopted a historic decision on a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centered set of universal and transformative goals and targets,” and goes on to confirm that “the new Agenda
builds on the Millennium Development Goals and seeks to complete what these did not achieve, particularly in reaching the most vulnerable.”
We have the opportunity now to empower a generation to make healthy choices, reduce the social and environmental NCD risk factors, and strengthen health systems to respond to the needs of children and adolescents. Together, these efforts will drive sustainable human development, achieve progress towards
the “25 by 25” global NCD target, and lay the foundation for the world’s future. This policy brief provides the rationale for investing in the early years of life for NCD prevention and treatment, offers strategic opportunities for interventions and impact, and outlines recommendations for the post-2015 era.
This global status report on prevention and control of NCDs (2014) is framed around the nine voluntary global targets.
The theme of the 2013 ECOSOC AMR is ‘Science, technology and innovation, and the potential of culture, for promoting sustainable development and achieving the MDGs’. NCD Child welcomes the opportunity to launch this Issues Paper at the ITU-IFPMA Ministerial Roundtable Breakfast, ‘Mobile Worlds, Mobile Actions – mHealth:
The Opportunity for NCDs’ – Palais des Nations, Geneva, 2 July 2013.
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—mainly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases
and diabetes—are the world’s biggest killers. More than 36 million people die annually from NCDs (63% of
global deaths), including more than 14 million people who die too young between the ages of 30 and 70.
Low- and middle-income countries already bear 86% of the burden of these premature deaths, resulting in
cumulative economic losses of US$7 trillion over the next 15 years and millions of people trapped in poverty.
A statement issued by organizations attending the Oakland Conference on NCDs in Children and Adolescents in 2012 which synthesizes the key challenges, concerns and constraints faced by children and adolescents living with NCDs.
In less than six months, the world will adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), renewing global development efforts for all nations. This brief addresses actions needed between now and September 2015 to ensure that global and national monitoring frameworks include relevant indicators for children and adolescents.
The global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) threatens the health, wellbeing and prosperity of all people everywhere. National governments, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) all recognize the need to prevent, treat and manage these diseases and address their social determinants, reduce exposure to risk factors, and build stronger and more sustainable health systems.
Provides an informative summary of Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In 2014, the WHO report Health for the World’s Adolescents showed that considerable gains from investments in maternal and child health programmes are at risk of being lost without corresponding investments in adolescent health. The latest data show that more than 3,000 adolescent die every day from largely preventable causes, and that many key risk factors for future adult disease start or are consolidated in adolescence. Adolescent mental health and well-being are often overlooked.
In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, with the global community looking on, adopted the new global agenda for sustainable development. Presenting and approving an outcome document titled,
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” the Assembly gave way to a new era in meeting global challenges. In the outcome document, a Declaration of the Assembly states, “On behalf of
the peoples we serve, we have adopted a historic decision on a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centered set of universal and transformative goals and targets,” and goes on to confirm that “the new Agenda
builds on the Millennium Development Goals and seeks to complete what these did not achieve, particularly in reaching the most vulnerable.”
We have the opportunity now to empower a generation to make healthy choices, reduce the social and environmental NCD risk factors, and strengthen health systems to respond to the needs of children and adolescents. Together, these efforts will drive sustainable human development, achieve progress towards
the “25 by 25” global NCD target, and lay the foundation for the world’s future. This policy brief provides the rationale for investing in the early years of life for NCD prevention and treatment, offers strategic opportunities for interventions and impact, and outlines recommendations for the post-2015 era.
This global status report on prevention and control of NCDs (2014) is framed around the nine voluntary global targets.
The theme of the 2013 ECOSOC AMR is ‘Science, technology and innovation, and the potential of culture, for promoting sustainable development and achieving the MDGs’. NCD Child welcomes the opportunity to launch this Issues Paper at the ITU-IFPMA Ministerial Roundtable Breakfast, ‘Mobile Worlds, Mobile Actions – mHealth:
The Opportunity for NCDs’ – Palais des Nations, Geneva, 2 July 2013.
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—mainly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases
and diabetes—are the world’s biggest killers. More than 36 million people die annually from NCDs (63% of
global deaths), including more than 14 million people who die too young between the ages of 30 and 70.
Low- and middle-income countries already bear 86% of the burden of these premature deaths, resulting in
cumulative economic losses of US$7 trillion over the next 15 years and millions of people trapped in poverty.
A statement issued by organizations attending the Oakland Conference on NCDs in Children and Adolescents in 2012 which synthesizes the key challenges, concerns and constraints faced by children and adolescents living with NCDs.
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