Chronic diseases and health promotion

Publications on chronic diseases and health promotion

Key publication

Preventing chronic diseases: a vital investment

The report makes the case for urgent action to halt and turn back the growing threat of chronic diseases, and dispels the long-held misunderstandings about heart disease, stroke, cancer and other chronic diseases.

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Chronic disease publications

Assessing national capacity for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases: report of the 2010 global survey

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Noncommunicable diseases country profiles 2011

Global status report on noncommunicable diseases 2010

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Chronic diseases and health promotion
World Health Organization
Avenue Appia 20
CH-1211 Geneva
Switzerland
chronicdiseases@who.int