Keeping up to date on NCDs: effective use of the Internet Pascal Bovet, MD, MPH Professor, University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne Consultant for NCD Section, Ministry of Health, Seychelles 8th WHO-IUMSP International Seminar on the Public Health Aspects of NCDs Lausanne-Geneva, 2-7 June 2014

World Health Organization (WHO) GBD Institute of Health Metrics Supercourse Wikipedia Resources for evidence-based public health (USPSTF, CPSTF, Cochrane, NICE) NCDseminar

WHO - NCD & mental heath http://www.who.int/nmh/en/

Tools to prevent NCD by objectives (6), targets (9) and indicators (25): http://www.who.int/nmh/ncd-tools/en/

Global monitoring framework - http://www.who.int/nmh/global_monitoring_framework/en/

Health stat & info systems: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/en/ Chiolero - Internet ressources

HSIS – Global Health Observatory: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/en/

Global health observatory http://www. who. int/gho/en/ http://www. who

Data collection tools: http://www. who

Infobase : https://apps.who.int/infobase/Index.aspx

WHO infobase - https://apps.who.int/infobase

Global health estimates (WHO): http://www. who Global health estimates (WHO): http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/en/ example: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/estimates_regional/en/index1.html

Tobacco free initiative www.who.int/tobacco/en/index.html

Surveillance tools STEPwise approach to surveillance (STEPS) www.who.int/chp/steps/en/ There are currently two primary STEPS surveillance systems, the STEPwise approach to risk factor surveillance and the STEPwise approach to stroke surveillance. Global school-based student health survey (GSHS) www.who.int/chp/gshs/en/index.html .

HINARI WHO http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ HINARI Access to Research in Health Programme HINARI Programme set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Up to 13,000 journals (in 30 different languages), up to 28,800 e-books, up to 70 other information resources are now available to health institutions in more than 100 countries, areas and territories benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improve world health. Map of country breakdown 2014 png, 121kb

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME): Global Burden of Diseases - www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd

GBD country profiles www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/country-profiles India: causes risk factors

Supercourse - www.pitt.edu/~super1/ By topics, for instance: Concepts of Epidemiology Course by Raj Bhohal (10 lectures in English and 1 in Spanish) www.pitt.edu/~super1/courses/epi5.htm Epidemiology Course by Nigel Paneth (22 lectures in English, Spanish Version translated by Nicolas Padilla and lectures in Portuguese, translated by Maria Rita Barros Justino) www.pitt.edu/~super1/courses/epi.htm Introduction to Chronic Disease Epidemiology. Supplemental Curriculum for Health Department Associates (Laporte, Linkov) www.pitt.edu/~super1/globalhealth/ncd.htm www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec40001/index.htm By authors: 1. S.N. Blair: Physical Inactivity: The Most Important Public Health Problem of the 21st Century www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec32051/index.htm

Wikipedia Lots of information on diseases and pathophysiology Few information on prevention – but many links Improvement is necessary (limited scientific validity) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_promotion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-communicable_disease

Resources for evidence-based public health Kohatsu ND, Robinson JG, Torner JC. Evidence-based public health: an evolving concept. Am J Prev Med. 2004;27(5):417-21.

Authoritative web sites for NCDs CDC http://www.cdc.gov/ World Heart Federation http://www.world-heart-federation.org/ American Heart Association http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/ International Diabetes Federation http://www.idf.org/ http://www.iarc.fr/ http://www.cancer.org/ Etc…

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/index.html The USPSTF conducts scientific evidence reviews of a broad range of clinical preventive health care services (such as screening, counseling, and preventive medications) and develops recommendations for primary care clinicians and health systems. Screening for diabetes http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/uspsdiab.htm Screening for Breast Cancer www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/uspsbrca.htm Screening for prostate cancer with PSA http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/prostatecancerscreening/prostatefinalrs.htm Tobacco cessation www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/uspstbac2.htm

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG/Published Prevention of CVD http://publications.nice.org.uk/prevention-of-cardiovascular-disease-ph25/considerations#primordial-prevention

Cochrane: http://www.cochrane.org/

Medline http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed US National Library of Medicine, NIH PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

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