NCD Hard Talks Webinar: Data-driven Action on NCDs for Impact: Presentation slides

Overview

Monitoring NCDs and their determinants provides the foundation for advocacy, policy development, national and global action. A decade ago, during the first UN High Level Meeting on NCDs, world leaders recognised the critical role that data plays in supporting evidence-based actions for NCD prevention and control. These leaders called on WHO to develop a Global Monitoring Framework to measure implementation progress of the best buy interventions, as well as a set of ambitious targets for NCDs. At the time it was widely recognized that many countries had little useable mortality data and weak NCD surveillance. Improving country-level surveillance and monitoring was considered a top priority in the fight against NCDs, including strengthening mortality registration systems, high quality risk factor surveillance, and patient and program monitoring.