The road to 2011

Overview

In 2000, the World Health Assembly adopted the WHO Global Strategy on NCDs, which linked four of the most prominent NCDs (cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and diabetes) to four preventable risk factors (tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and the harmful use of alcohol). In 2008, the World Health Assembly adopted the "WHO Global Action Plan 2008-2013 for the Implementation of the WHO Global Strategy on NCDs", which comprised “a set of action which, when performed collectively by Member States and other stakeholders, will tackle the growing public-health burden imposed by NCDs”.