Information resources on the Internet for NCD prevention and control Dr A. Chiolero, MD MSc

1. Information resources on the Internet for NCD prevention and control Dr A. Chiolero, MD MSc Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP) University of Lausanne, Switzerland 2nd WHO-IUMSP International Seminar on the Public Health Aspect of Non-communicable Diseases 18 August 2010 Chiolero - Internet resources

2. Examples of information resources on the Internet for NCD prevention and control 1. World Health Organisation (WHO) 2. Supercourse 3. Procor 4. Globalink 5. 3four50.com 6. Centers for diseases control and prevention (CDC) 7. National institue for Health and Clinical Excellence - NICE Chiolero - Internet resources

3. World Health Organisation (WHO) WHO http://www.who.int/en/ Chronic diseases http://www.who.int/topics/chronic_diseases/en/ WHO Noncommunicable diseases Action Plan http://www.who.int/nmh/Actionplan-PC-NCD-2008.pdf Integrated chronic disease prevention and control http://www.who.int/chp/about/integrated_cd/en/index.html WHO database http://infobase.who.int Chiolero - Internet resources

4. World Health Organisation (WHO) • Burden of diseases • Country information • http://www.who.int/chp/countries/en/index.html • Impact of chronic diseases • http://www.who.int/chp/chronic_disease_report/media/impact/en/index.html • Burden of diseases • http://www.who.int/topics/global_burden_of_disease/en/ • Questions: • What is the proportion of deaths due to CVD and cancer in India and Brazil? • What is the proportion of deaths due to CVD and cancer in low, middle and high income countries? Chiolero - Internet resources

5. Burden of diseases More information on burden of diseases The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/ The Global Burden of Diseases Study http://www.globalburden.org/ Chiolero - Internet resources

6. World Health Organisation (WHO) • A. Surveillance in adults • STEPwise approach to surveillance (STEPS) • http://www.who.int/chp/steps/en/ • Questions: • What is the percentage of adults who currently smoke tobacco in Malawi and in Indonesia? • What is the the percentage of adults who are obese in Indonesia? Chiolero - Internet resources

7. World Health Organisation (WHO) B. Surveillance in youth Global school-based student health survey (GSHS) http://www.who.int/chp/gshs/en/index.html Questions: 1. What is the percentage of students who had at least one drink containing alcohol over one or more days during the past 30 days in Swaziland and Tanzania (Dar Es Salaam)? 2. What is the percentage of students who smoked cigarettes over one or more days during the past 30 days in India and in the Seychelles? Chiolero - Internet resources

8. Supercourse http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ Supercourse - a repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention. - has a network of over 65000 scientists in 174 countries, sharing for free a library of 4421 lectures in 31 languages. - has been produced at the WHO Collaborating Center University of Pittsburgh, with Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D., Faina Linkov, Ph.D., Mita Lovalekar, M.D., Ph.D., and Eugene Shubnikov M.D. Please contact us at super1@pitt.edu Chiolero - Internet resources

9. Supercourse • http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ • By topics, for instance: • Concepts of Epidemiology Course by Raj Bhohal (10 lectures in English and 1 • in Spanish) http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/courses/epi5.htm • Epidemiology Course by Nigel Paneth (22 lectures in English, Spanish Version translated by Nicolas Padilla and lectures in Portuguese, translated by Maria Rita Barros Justino) http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/courses/epi.htm • Health Care in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec10091/index.htm Chiolero - Internet resources

10. Supercourse • http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ • By authors, for instance: • S.N. Blair: Physical Inactivity: The Most Important Public Health Problem of the 21st Century http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec32051/index.htm • P. Bovet: Health transition and emerging cardiovascular disease in developing countries: situation and strategies for prevention. Part I Part II Part III http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec12691/index.htm Chiolero - Internet resources

11. Procor • http://www.procor.org/ • ProCor • - promotes CVD prevention in developing countries and low-resource settings through global knowledge sharing • - lots of information on research & networking! • For instance: • Knowledge, What We Know: Cardiovascular diseases http://www.procor.org/cvd/ • Action, What We Can Do: Community program http://www.procor.org/community/ • Global, Community, Working Together: Global Dialogue • http://www.procor.org/globaldialogue/ • an open discussion forum for questions, information exchange, and networking to find solutions and to shared challenges, moderated by ProCor Chiolero - Internet resources

12. Globalink http://www.globalink.org/ Globalink - global tobacco control - free tools, lists, list-servers, web-hosting, petitions for tobacco control and research Chiolero - Internet resources

13. 3four50.com http://www.3four50.com/ Chiolero - Internet resources

14. Centers for diseases control and prevention • http://www.cdc.gov/ • CDC • - high quality information on chronic diseases and prevention • For instance: • For public health professionnals http://www.cdc.gov/CDCForYou/public_health_professionals.html • Preventing chronic diseases (free access) http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/ • Healthy Living http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyLiving/ • Prevent Diabetes http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/consumer/prevent.htm Chiolero - Internet resources

15. Centers for diseases control and prevention The community guide http://www.thecommunityguide.org/index.html Guide to Community Preventive Services - a free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community - systematic reviews are used to answer these questions: - which program and policy interventions have been proven effective? - are there effective interventions that are right for my community? - what might effective interventions cost; what is the likely return on investment? For instance: Tobacco Use http://www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/index.html Cancer http://www.thecommunityguide.org/cancer/index.html Chiolero - Internet resources

16. National institue for Health and Clinical Excellence - NICE • NICE • - independent organization for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health http://www.nice.org.uk/ • - highquality information to promote good health and prevent ill health, based on the best evidence • For instance: • Clinical guidelines http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG • - Type 2 diabetes: the management of type 2 diabetes http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG66 • Public health guidance http://guidance.nice.org.uk/PHG • - Alcohol-use disorders - preventing the development of hazardous and harmful drinking http://guidance.nice.org.uk/PH24 • - Guidance on the prevention of cardiovascular disease at the population level http://guidance.nice.org.uk/PH25 Chiolero - Internet resources