WHO report press releases

Tunisia

The WHO strategy will contribute to awareness-raising on chronic disease, and lead to a scaling up of community-based interventions in countries including Tunisia.

United States (Alaska)

The Alaskan CAPCoD project will adopt a bottom-up approach to action against chronic disease, training peer educators in rural Alaska, who will encourage the adoption of healthier lifestyles.

United States (New York)

The approach suggested by the WHO report is being put into practice in East Flatbush, where the Good Neighbors Project is seeking funding for programmes to make it easier for local residents to live healthy lives.

Bulgaria

The HE+AL partnership for business action on healthy eating and active living encourages a multi-sectoral approach.

Cameroon

The Cameroon Burden of Diabetes project pilots systematic assessment, surveillance and strategy to address diabetes and its risk factors.

Israel

The Israel CAPCoD project has the support of the Israeli Ministry of Health, recognising that ‘Israel is in dire need of new integrated approaches to health promotion’.

Mexico

In Mexico, as in other middle-income countries, chronic diseases lead the mortality and burden-of-disease tables. The WHO report proposals fit well with the primary-prevention model spearheaded by CAPCoD.

Pakistan

In line with the WHO initiative to control chronic diseases, Pakistan’s CAPCoD project is aimed at identifying and modifying schoolchildren’s risk behaviours for the diseases.

Russia

CAPCoD, with the International Business Leaders Forum and the Moscow-based Quality of Life Foundation, are calculating the costs of ill-health for companies in Russia, and will develop interventions to neutralise the trends.

United States (Illinois)

The CAPCoD project in the suburbs of Chicago will focus on middle-income suburban dwellers, using workplace and community health promotion.

United States (Massachusetts)

Every Step Counts is a school-based programme in Dorchester, MA, encouraging better nutrition and physical fitness, and tobacco cessation.

India, Kerala

This community-based project in Kerala – the area with the highest prevalence of chronic disease in India – focuses on research and intervention.

Latin America

The Inter-American Heart Foundation is involved in a project to implement and evaluate comprehensive community interventions, focusing on policy interventions to change the living environment in four cities in Latin America.

Indonesia

The WHO report gives potential direction to integrated health-promotion programmes such as the CAPCoD project in Indonesia.

United States (Wisconsin)

Health disparities in the United States: the Hmong population – bridging a cultural gap

South Africa

The South African CAPCoD project is in line with the approach recommended by the WHO, focusing on designing a school curriculum with healthy lifestyles – diet and physical activity – at its core.