Volume 23, Supplement—December 2017
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Global Health Security Supplement
Overview
Synergies between Communicable and Noncommunicable Disease Programs to Enhance Global Health Security
Deliana Kostova
, Muhammad J. Husain, David Sugerman, Yuling Hong, Mona Saraiya, Jennifer Keltz, and Samira Asma
, Muhammad J. Husain, David Sugerman, Yuling Hong, Mona Saraiya, Jennifer Keltz, and Samira Asma
Table 1
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approaches to NCD, injury, and environmental health control and prevention*
| Strategy/activity domain | Goal | Activities | Programs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strengthening surveillance |
Strengthen country and partner capacity for surveillance and monitoring and evaluation systems |
•Support surveillance systems through surveys
•Use technology to improve data collection, analysis, and reporting
•Develop data analysis, dissemination, and visualization tools to track progress toward global NCD targets and evaluate policy impact
•Strengthen civil registration, vital statistics, and cause of death and disease registries to inform public health and medical decisions |
•Cancer registries
•Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative
•Global School Health Surveillance
•Road traffic injury
•Tobacco control
•Violence against children |
| Expanding the evidence base |
Scale up interventions to improve health outcomes |
•Generate scientific evidence by developing, implementing, and scaling up interventions to accelerate impact for priority risk factors or disease outcomes |
•Cervical cancer
•Diabetes
•Economics of NCD risk factors
•Environmental health
•Global Hearts Initiative
•Maternal mortality
•Malnutrition
•Shandong Ministry of Health Action on Salt Reduction and Hypertension |
| Enhancing workforce capacity | Strengthen national public health capacity, infrastructure, and workforce | •Develop training modules •Provide quality training, technical exchange, and mentorship •Utilize web-based training tools •Support mini-grants for relevant projects •Encourage networking | •Field Epidemiology Training Program •NCD short course for program managers |
*NCD, noncommunicable disease.
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