1. 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

2. 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

3. World Health Organisation
WHO
Chronic diseases
Impact of chronic diseases
WHO Noncommunicable Diseases Action Plan
Integrated chronic disease prevention and control

4. World Health Organisation
Health statistics and health information systems
- Global Health Observatory (GHO)
- Mortality
- The Global Burden of Disease (GBD)
Burden of diseases
WHO Global Infobase
Questions:
What is the proportion of deaths due to CVD in India and Brazil?
What is the age-standardized mortality rate in Egypt?

6. 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.
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 :
GYTS:
Questions:
What is the percentage of adults who are obese in Malawi ?
What is the the percentage of children who smoke in Indonesia?

7. Burden of diseases More information on burden of diseases New
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
The Global Burden of Diseases Study
New!

8. 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 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:
- collaboration with WHO and Library of Alexander

9. Supercourse http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ By topics, for instance:
Concepts of Epidemiology Course by Raj Bhopal
Epidemiology Course by Nigel Paneth
Introduction to Chronic Disease Epidemiology by Ronald E.Laporte
By authors, for instance:
S.N. Blair: Physical Inactivity: The Most Important Public Health Problem of the 21st Century

10. Globalink http://www.globalink.org/
Free tools, lists, list-servers, web-hosting, petitions for tobacco control and research
Union for International Cancer Control
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
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
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is an umbrella organization of over 200 national diabetes associations in over 160 countries.
The NCD alliance
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).

11. Centers for diseases control and prevention
High quality information on chronic diseases and prevention
For instance:
For public health professionnals
Preventing chronic diseases (free access)
Healthy Living
Prevent Diabetes

12. Centers for diseases control and prevention
The community guide
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
Cancer

13. Wikipedia Lots of information on diseases and pathophysiology
Few information on prevention – but many links
However, much improvement is necessary (quality, scientific validity)

14. 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.“

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

16. 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.

17. 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
Action, What We Can Do: Community program
Global, Community, Working Together: Global Dialogue
an open discussion forum for questions, information exchange, and networking to find solutions and to share challenges, moderated by ProCor