Ethical tensions in dealing with noncommunicable diseases globally
Sridhar Venkatapuram, Martin McKee & David Stuckler
Volume 90, Number 3, March 2012, 241-242
Table 1. Comparison of declarations on noncommunicable diseases made at meetings held by World Health Organization regional offices
| Intervention | Tehran (Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean) 25–26 October 2010 |
Oslo (Regional Office for Europe) 25–26 November 2010 |
Jakarta (Regional Office for South-East Asia) March 2011 |
Nadi (Regional Office for the Western Pacific) 5 February 2011 |
Mexico City (Regional Office for the Americas) 25 February 2011 |
Seoul (Regional Office for the Western Pacific) 18 March 2011 |
Brazzaville (Regional Office for Africa) 6 April 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scope | |||||||
| Includes mention of mental health or injuries | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Framing | |||||||
| Address NCDs as a human right | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Address social determinants of NCDs | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Finance | |||||||
| Include NCDs in international development goals | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Increase development assistance for health for NCDs | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Increase domestic funding for NCDs | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Prevention | |||||||
| Implementing fiscal and regulatory measures to address NCDs | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Involvement of civil society | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Involvement of private sector | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Health care | |||||||
| Strengthen primary health care | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Specific call to deliver essential medicines and technologies | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
NCDs, noncommunicable diseases.