Information resources on the Internet for NCD prevention and control Arnaud Chiolero, Pascal Bovet Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP) University of Lausanne, Switzerland 5th WHO-IUMSP International Seminar on the Public Health Aspect of Non-communicable Diseases, 5-10 Sep 2011

Examples of information resources on the Internet for NCD prevention and control World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Burden of Disease Supercourse Wikipedia NGOs, NCD Alliance Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) National Institue for Health and Clinical Excellence - NICE Pubmed – Medline Procor

World Health Organisation WHO http://www.who.int/en/ Chronic diseases http://www.who.int/topics/chronic_diseases/en/ Impact of chronic diseases http://www.who.int/chp/chronic_disease_report/media/impact/en/index.html WHO Noncommunicable Diseases Action Plan http://www.who.int/nmh/publications/9789241597418/en/index.html Integrated chronic disease prevention and control http://www.who.int/chp/about/integrated_cd/en/index.html

World Health Organisation Health statistics and health information systems http://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/en/ - Global Health Observatory (GHO) - Mortality - The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Burden of diseases http://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/en/index.html WHO Global Infobase https://apps.who.int/infobase/ Questions: What is the proportion of deaths due to CVD in India and Brazil? What is the age-standardized mortality rate in Egypt?

http://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/regions/dalys/en/index.html

World Health Organisation Surveillance in adults The WHO STEPwise approach to Surveillance (STEPS) is a simple, standardized method for collecting, analyzing and disseminating data in WHO member countries. http://www.who.int/chp/steps/en/ B. Surveillance in children/adolescents 10 key areas among young people aged 13 to 15 years (alcohol use, dietary behaviours, drug use, hygiene, mental health, physical activity, protective factors, sexual behaviours, tobacco use, violence and unintentional injury). GSHS : http://www.who.int/chp/gshs/en/ GYTS: http://www.who.int/tobacco/surveillance/gyts/en/ Questions: What is the percentage of adults who are obese in Malawi ? What is the the percentage of children who smoke in Indonesia?

Burden of diseases More information on burden of diseases New The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/ The Global Burden of Diseases Study http://www.globalburden.org/ New! www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/globalmetabolics/

Supercourse http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ - a repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention. - has a network of over 65000 scientists in 174 countries who are sharing for free a library of 4755 lectures in 31 languages. - has been produced at the WHO Collaborating Center University of Pittsburgh, with Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D., Faina Linkov, Ph.D., Mita Lovalekar, M.D., Ph.D., and Eugene Shubnikov M.D. Contact: super1@pitt.edu   - collaboration with WHO and Library of Alexander

Supercourse http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ By topics, for instance: Concepts of Epidemiology Course by Raj Bhopal http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/courses/epi5.htm Epidemiology Course by Nigel Paneth http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/courses/epi.htm Introduction to Chronic Disease Epidemiology by Ronald E.Laporte http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/globalhealth/ncd.htm http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec40001/index.htm By authors, for instance: S.N. Blair: Physical Inactivity: The Most Important Public Health Problem of the 21st Century http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec32051/index.h

Globalink http://www.globalink.org/ Free tools, lists, list-servers, web-hosting, petitions for tobacco control and research Union for International Cancer Control http://www.uicc.org/ Founded in 1933, the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) is the largest cancer fighting organisation of its kind, with more than 400 member organisations across 120 countries. World heart federation http://www.worldheart.org/ The World Heart Federation is a nongovernmental organization committed to uniting its members and leads the global fight against heart disease and stroke, with a focus on low-and middle-income countries. International Diabetes Federation http://www.idf.org/ The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is an umbrella organization of over 200 national diabetes associations in over 160 countries. The NCD alliance http://www.ncdalliance.org/ The purpose of the NCD Alliance website is to provide the latest news, resources and information on the global campaign for non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

Centers for diseases control and prevention http://www.cdc.gov/ High quality information on chronic diseases and prevention For instance: For public health professionnals http://www.cdc.gov/CDCForYou/public_health_professionals.html Preventing chronic diseases (free access) http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/ Healthy Living http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyLiving/ Prevent Diabetes http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/consumer/prevent.htm

Centers for diseases control and prevention The community guide http://www.thecommunityguide.org/index.html Guide to Community Preventive Services - a free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community - systematic reviews are used to answer these questions: - which program and policy interventions have been proven effective? - are there effective interventions that are right for my community? - what might effective interventions cost; what is the likely return on investment? For instance: Tobacco Use http://www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/index.html Cancer http://www.thecommunityguide.org/cancer/index.html

Wikipedia Lots of information on diseases and pathophysiology Few information on prevention – but many links However, much improvement is necessary (quality, scientific validity) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_promotion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention_(medical) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_disease http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Rose_(epidemiologist)

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) The USPSTF is an independent panel of non-Federal experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine and is composed of primary care providers (such as internists, pediatricians, family physicians, gynecologists/obstetricians, nurses, and health behavior specialists). 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. Recommendations are published as "Recommendation Statements.“ http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/recommendations.htm http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstfix.htm

National Institue for Health and Clinical Excellence - NICE Independent organization for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health http://www.nice.org.uk/ - high quality information to promote good health and prevent ill health, based on the best evidence For instance: Clinical guidelines http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG Type 2 diabetes: the management of type 2 diabetes http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG66 Public health guidance http://guidance.nice.org.uk/PHG - Guidance on the prevention of cardiovascular disease at the population level http://guidance.nice.org.uk/PH25

MEDLINE - PUBMED PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Procor http://www.procor.org/ - ProCor is a global network promoting cardiovascular health in developing countries and other low-resource settings. - ProCor uses low-cost communication technologies to provide people in clinical, community, advocacy, and policymaking settings with the information they need to promote heart health. - Lots of information on research & networking! For instance: Knowledge, What We Know: Cardiovascular diseases http://www.procor.org/cvd/ Action, What We Can Do: Community program http://www.procor.org/community/ Global, Community, Working Together: Global Dialogue http://www.procor.org/globaldialogue/ an open discussion forum for questions, information exchange, and networking to find solutions and to share challenges, moderated by ProCor