Room | : | Lotus Suite 5-7, FL. 22 |
The world is facing a spectre of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which will diminish the length and quality of life, interact with existing health conditions, raise household and public health expenditures, and increase the burden of care on family members. A number of policies have been implemented to fight NCDs and studies have shown some interventions to be ‘best buys’ whereas others are ‘wasted buys’. Most NCDs can be preventable and, given the generally lower cost and simpler delivery of preventive interventions, a move towards preventive rather than curative interventions could be attractive. Another approach that is gaining prominence in discussions of NCDs is ‘do-it-yourself’ or DIY interventions. NCDs are by definition not contagious or infectious and people develop them over the course of their lives for many reasons including those to do with lifestyle. As such, they can be prevented if people modify their lifestyles (i.e., in DIY interventions). At present, there is no definitive collection of evidence on ‘best buys’, ‘wasted buys’, and DIY interventions for the prevention of the NCD burden that governments, health professionals, NCD program managers, and healthy lifestyle promotion personnel can use.
This session will introduce an upcoming information package which aims to provide details on Best Buys, Wasted Buys, and DIYs in NCD prevention focusing on cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), diabetes, chronic lung disease and cancers. This work is not intended to offer a one-size-fits-all approach for making recommendations on NCD prevention. It seeks instead to identify how different systems can create and utilize information for identifying interventions offering best value for their populations.
Professor
University of York
United Kingdom
Professor of Health Policy and Co-Director
Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
Australia
Project Scientist
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Canada
Lecturer on Global Health Policy and Executive Director of the Takemi Program in International Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
United States of America
Director
PRICELESS SA
South Africa
Director
The Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at Tufts Medical Center
United States of America
Associate Professor
Hitotsubashi University
Japan
Public Health Physician
Public Health England
United Kingdom
Adviser, WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on Noncommunicable Diseases
World Health Organization
Switzerland
Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
Thailand
Founder
Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program
Thailand