Oct 29, 2018 | Dissemination, Health Policy, Meetings, NCD, Nepal, NTD, Videos
During a site visit to Nepal in 2017, representatives from the Ministry of Health, Organizations and academia met COHESION Project partners and funders to discuss research findings from Mozambique, Nepal and Peru; potential interventions and implications for health...
Oct 24, 2018 | Articles, Community Health Perceptions, Dissemination, NCD, NTD, Peru, Publications
The paper entitled “Food Perceptions and Dietary Changes for Chronic Condition Management in Rural Peru: Insights for Health Promotion” was published in Nutrients special issue “Nutrition and Chronic Conditions” (see here) on 23 October 2018....
Oct 15, 2018 | Health Policy, NCD
At the end of September this year in New York, the United Nations (UN) held a High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable diseases (NCD). This followed from the first such meeting held in 2011. In 2011 this meeting was a landmark as it was the first time a health issue was...
Feb 8, 2018 | COHESION matters, Meetings, NCD, Nepal, NTD, Presentation, Updates
COHESION team members; Dr. Claudia Rutte, SNF r4d Project Coordinator; Prof. Dr. Joanna Schellenberg and Dr Andrew Cassels, SNF r4d Advisors met for a first site visit to Nepal from November 27th to December 2nd 2017. The goal of the one-week meeting was to share...
Dec 5, 2017 | Health Policy, NCD, news, policy analysis, Presentation, Team
At the beginning of November 2017, COHESION presented the results of its global policy analysis on NCDs at the annual symposium of Medicus Mundi Switzerland entitled «No business as usual against non-communicable diseases » (see here). The aim of this year’s...
Sep 20, 2017 | COHESION matters, NCD
Allen and Feigl1 fail to emphasize that non-communicable diseases (NCD) were framed and not named in global health discourse. NCDs from a global health perspective are currently thought of as four diseases and four associated risk factors.2 This framing does not...
