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Public Health Careers podcast episode with Kelly Larson, MPH

How can we address the intersecting challenges of climate change and non-communicable diseases at once? In this first episode of the Intersections in Health, a new short podcast mini series, we delve into NCDs and the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and toxic pollution with  Hans Bruyninckx , Commissioner on the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health #PECCH, Professor of Environmental Governance at the University of Antwerp, former Executive Director of the European Environment Agency and Sinaia Netanyahu , Programme Manager at WHO/Europe's Centre for Environment and Health. We discuss attacks on science and #misinformation, the art of knowledge translation, communicating complexity and uncertainty, super wicked problems and system transformation. Crucially, we explore what this moment asks of each one of us and collectively. Tune in and give us your feedback on the issues discussed.  ----------Our next episodes will explore the intersections of NCDs and anti-microbial resistance and NCDs and population ageing. This short series is part of WHO/Europe's count-down to the UN High Level Meeting on NCDs in September 2025. 

The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs joins the rest of the Caribbean in commemorating Caribbean Nutrition Day on June 1st and launching the observance of Nutrition Awareness Month under the theme “Healthy Eating, Active Living: Sustainable Diets for a Healthier Caribbean.” This regional initiative highlights the urgent need for individuals, families, schools, workplaces, and communities to adopt habits that improve personal health and protect the environment. With non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and climate-related challenges on the rise, the Ministry emphasizes that now more than ever, sustainable food choices and physical activity must become part of our national lifestyle.

Willkommen zu dieser Soloepisode mit Ferdi: Es geht um eine der kausalen Ursachen für die Krankheiten, an denen 80% der Bevölkerung sterben und 80% der Gesundheitskosten verursachen. Du hast richtig gehört! Diese unglaublichen Statistiken musst du hören und wissen wie man gegen diese stille Pandemie vorgeht. Wir PhysiotherapeutInnen können eine wichtige Rolle einnehmen in der Prävention und Behandlung von stillen Entzündungen! Wenn du an mehr Austausch und einem Netzwerk interessiert bist an präventiv tätigen Physios/ Coaches, dann melde dich direkt bei mir über Instagram. LGFerdi

The CEO of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), Dr Slim Slama, joins us on this episode of The afikra Podcast to give an in-depth look into the complexities and challenges facing global health today, including the rise of non-communicable diseases, the impact of urbanization, and the inequity in health systems worldwide. The conversation also explores the innovative approaches in healthcare, the role of AI, and the specific health issues pertinent to the Arab world. Through his diverse experiences working in crisis-affected areas and his insights on the evolving dynamics between the East and the West, Dr Slama provides an enriching perspective on how to advance global health for all. This episode was recorded on March 6 and is brought to you in collaboration with Qatar Foundation.00:00 Introduction01:23 Defining Global Health04:12 Evolution of Public Health Issues06:59 Health Challenges in the Arab World11:00 Healthcare in Crisis-Affected Areas14:22 Ministries of Health: Performance and Challenges25:19 Global Health Workforce Shortages28:34 AI in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges38:12 Healthcare in Gaza: Current Situation and Future41:42 Impact of Political Decisions on Global Health45:03 Future of Healthcare in the Arab World47:11 Conclusion and WISH's Future PlansDr. Slim Slama is the Chief Executive Officer of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) at Qatar Foundation. He is an internal medicine specialist and a public health expert with over 25 years of experience in global health. For more than a decade at the World Health Organization (WHO), his role was Regional Adviser for Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) prevention and management at the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. He transitioned to the Head of the Management-Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Unit (MND) where he provided strategic leadership and oversaw the development and implementation of a portfolio focused on early detection, diagnosis, and management of NCDs, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, oral health, and digital health solutions. His work also extended to implementation research and managing NCDs in humanitarian settings.Connect with Dr Slama

This is Nelson John, and I'll bring you the top business and tech stories, let's get started. US-China Tariff War Escalates The US-China trade tensions hit a boiling point as the White House confirmed a 104% tariff on Chinese imports, effective April 9. While President Trump says he's “waiting for China's call,” Beijing isn't backing down, calling the move “blackmail.” Global markets, oddly, bounced back slightly on hopes of negotiations—but signs of a resolution remain slim. Apple's Satcom Partner Eyes India Globalstar, the satellite partner behind Apple's emergency SOS feature, has applied to enter India's growing satellite market. With just 31 satellites compared to Starlink's 7,000+, Globalstar is eyeing a niche play. But competition is heating up, with players like Jio, OneWeb, and Amazon Kuiper racing for spectrum. India's satcom sector could grow nearly 10x by 2028. BoAt Sets Sail for IPO—Again India's popular wearables brand BoAt is gearing up for a ₹2,000 crore IPO. After shelving its 2022 plans, the company has confidentially filed papers under SEBI's revised norms. The issue includes a ₹900 crore fresh issue and ₹1,100 crore offer-for-sale. Proceeds will fund R&D, product upgrades, and debt reduction—potentially making this one of the year's most anticipated listings. India's Big Shipbuilding Ambition India is charting a new course in shipbuilding, teaming up with South Korea's Hyundai and Japan's Mitsui. Cochin Shipyard is close to sealing a deal for a new Kochi facility, with land provided by the government. The goal? Boost India's share in the $100 billion global shipbuilding market from less than 1% to a top-5 position by 2047, backed by a ₹25,000 crore Maritime Development Fund. Apollo Hospitals Bets Big on NCD Care Apollo Hospitals is investing ₹6,000 crore to expand its urban footprint and fight India's rising tide of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The two-phase plan will add 3,500 beds across cities like Pune, Mumbai, and Chennai. Apollo's “Health of the Nation” report reveals 27% of 2.5 million screened individuals had multiple NCD risk factors. The healthcare giant is pushing for nationwide screening and preventive school health programs.

South Africa currently faces a dire health crisis. Diabetes now ranks as the second leading cause of death in South Africa after tuberculosis, with a concerning 25 000 deaths attributed to the disease in 2022. Diabetes affects 12 percent of the adult population in South Africa, wreaking havoc to the family’s livelihood and the individual’s health, workplace productivity, – as well as the national fiscus. Diabetes, on diagnosed patients alone, costs South Africa’s health system a whopping R2.7 billion. And this is where increasing the sugar tax from 10 to 20 percent would help. The Healthy Living Alliance (HEALA) still maintains that the South African government has an opportunity to curb the prevalence of NCDs in South Africa, including diabetes, obesity, and related health issues. Zukiswa Mzimela, Heala Comms Manager. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In response to the increasing mortality associated with Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors, the National NCD Committee has convened a high-level stakeholder consultation aimed at fostering collaboration and strengthening national strategies for prevention and control. The consultation is taking place at the 5th Floor Conference Room, Finance Administrative Centre, Pointe Seraphine. The event brings together key stakeholders to engage in knowledge sharing and explore a whole-of-society approach to combatting NCDs. The consultation seeks to improve the visibility of the Ministry of Health's efforts in addressing NCDs, raise awareness of their significant impact on morbidity and mortality, and strengthen community-based initiatives through partnerships with athletic clubs and other organizations. 

First podcast of 2025 features Dr Rajesh Kumar Sood, District Programme Officer, National Health Mission and District TB Officer (National TB Elimination Programme) Kangra Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India. He is in conversation with CNS founder Managing Editor and Executive Director Shobha Shukla on the ongoing #100Days focussed campaign to #ReachTheUnreached people with best of TB diagnostics, treatment and prevention services in India.Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by a young feminist Ms Tara Shukla Iyer from UK.Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.ThanksCNS team

Welcome to Top of the Morning by Mint, your weekday newscast that brings you five major stories from the world of business. It's Monday, December 2, 2024. This is Nelson John, let's get started.India's market regulator, Sebi, recently restricted three unregistered online bond platforms from offering privately placed unlisted NCDs to the public. Anshika Kayastha and Neha Joshi write that Sebi has taken this decision due to violations of regulations, which classify any issue with over 200 investors as a public issue. This crackdown was driven by concerns over investor protection and the risks associated with high-yield products. Online platforms often blur the lines between private and public offerings, leading to enhanced regulation. India's economy might not be doing so well. The latest GDP growth figures for India indicate a significant slowdown. N. Madhavan writes that latest data shows that growth has now declined for the third consecutive quarter. At 5.4%, it is much lower than 8.1% in the same quarter last year. This downturn is attributed to lower private consumption, investment, and exports. However, the agricultural sector showed a 3.5% increase, showing some positive signs. A weakening rupee could dampen the Indian economy's spirits. Economists have already revised their GDP growth estimates downwards, with a consensus of around 6% for the current financial year.Large companies can always be seen clamouring for government subsidies to help their business. The central government's production-linked incentive scheme was supposed to do just that. The idea was simple: meet certain manufacturing targets, and collect your subsidy. It was successful across many industries such as automobiles, solar and electronics. However, recent disbursals have decimated from ₹10,000 crore in 2023-24 to around ₹1,000 crore this year. Our partners at How India Lives . com write that the textile sector in particular is struggling. Firms aren't able to meet production targets, leading to fewer scheme grants. Will India's manufacturing industry be able to pick itself up?A good logo isn't just a symbol — it embodies a brand's identity and values. Every now and then, companies will refresh their brands to stay relevant — and appeal to the consumers of the day. However, should you go to an extreme like Tata Group-owned Jaguar did recently? Gaurav Laghate writes that Jaguar's rebrand illustrates the risks and rewards of a minimalist logo and ad campaign that led to widespread backlash. Industry veterans point towards more successful refreshes like that of Porsche's, which was a balance of innovation with heritage. Gaurav adds that while visual identities may evolve every two to three years, major overhauls should be rare and always align with brand strategy.After faltering in China, global luxury brands like Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, and Hermes were bailed out by wealthy Indians. These companies reported impressive growth numbers from the Indian market, writes Varuni Khosla. In FY24, Louis Vuitton India saw an income rise of nearly 13%, while Christian Dior's revenue surged by 45%. However, not all brands are thriving: Reliance Brands reported increased revenue but also a 55% rise in losses. FY25 started off on a challenging note due to a blistering summer and elections, which reduced walk-in traffic at stores. The luxury market in India is expected to reach around $30 billion by 2030, and these brands are waiting for the boom eagerly.

Now more than ever, it's important to challenge the world's food and beverage manufacturers to address nutrition issues like obesity and undernutrition. Today, we're going to discuss the 2024 Global Access to Nutrition Index, a very important ranking system that evaluates companies on their nutrition related policies, product portfolios, marketing practices, and engagement with stakeholders. The index is an accountability strategy produced by ATNI, the Access to Nutrition Initiative, a global nonprofit foundation seeking to drive market change for nutrition. Our guest today is Greg Garrett, Executive Director of ATNI. Interview Summary You know, I very much admire the work you and your colleagues have done on this index. It fills such an important need in the field and I'm eager to dive in and talk a little bit more about it. So, let's start with this. You know, we've all heard of the concept of social determinants of health and more recently, people have begun talking about corporate determinants of health. And your organization really is focused on corporate determinants of nutrition. Let's start with a question that kind of frames all this. What's the role of industry in nutrition, according to the way you're looking at things? And how does the Global Index shine a light on this topic? Thanks for the question. We're working primarily quite downstream with large manufacturers and retailers. But we hope to affect change across the value chain by working with that group. Of course, when we talk about private sector in food, that's a very, very broad terminology that we're using. It could include farmers on the one hand, looking all the way upstream, all the way through to SMEs, aggregators, processors, manufacturers. SMEs are what? Small and medium enterprises, small and medium enterprises, local ones. All the way through to the multinational food and beverage manufacturers. But also catering organizations and restaurants. When we talk about business what we're trying to do is ensure that business cares about portability, and access to safe and nutritious food. And I think we can say pretty safely, based on the data which we'll talk about, that the health aspects of food are still not as, they're not at the forefront like they should be. Yet. We'll dive in and talk a little bit more about what the index is and what it shows in a minute. But let's start with a kind of broader question. What is the role of diet and consumption of processed foods in influencing health? Yes, so they say now one in five deaths are related to poor diet. It's arguably now the biggest risk factor related to global morbidity and mortality. We've seen in the last 20 years a slight slowing down of our efforts to combat malnutrition and undernutrition. Whereas we've seen over nutrition, obesity, really taking off. And that's not just in high income countries, but also low- and middle-income countries. So, you know, it might be too little good food and that can lead to at the extreme end of things wasting. It might be too little micronutrients, which can lead to all kinds of micronutrient deficiencies or hidden hunger that leads to many adverse outcomes. Including, for example, cognitive decline or reduced immune system. And then, in terms of diabetes and obesity, we're seeing that really skyrocket. Not only in countries where we have excessive food intake, but also in low- and middle-income countries where they have too much food with a lot of, say, empty calories. Not enough nutrients that are needed. In fact, the recent numbers that we've been working with, it looks like in the last 20 years, obesity rates have gone from about 7.9 percent to 15.9 percent. And by 2030, it might be that 20 percent of global population is considered obese if we don't mitigate that. Right, and of course that number is many, many times higher in the developed countries. So, you've got a tough job. You talked about the complexity of the food industry going all the way to the farmers, to the big companies, and caterers even, and things. And a lot of different health outcomes are involved. How in the world do you construct an index from all that? Why don't you tell us what the Global Index is, and then some of what you found in the most recent report. Yes, so the Global Index, we've been running it for 11 years since ATNI was founded. And it has gone through multiple iterations. This latest one was the biggest we've done and we tried to capture about a quarter of the world's market. So, what we did is we took the 30 largest food and beverage manufacturers by revenue. We looked at 52,000 of their products, and that's where we know the market share was about 23 percent global market share. We profiled the foods. We tried to understand their governance structures and how much nutrition features in the way they run their business. We tried to understand, for example, how they market the foods. Are they marketing them responsibly, according to the World Health Organization guidelines? Really dive deep. It's dozens and dozens of indicators where we ask lots of questions of the companies over a 10-month period. And, by doing that, we hope to understand how financially material is nutrition to these companies. We want to give something of use, not only for the companies, but to policymakers. Because we know there's a big role for policymakers to both incentivize the production and the marketing of healthy foods, but also disincentivize unhealthy foods. We want this to be useful for investors. So, we spend a lot of time, through collaborative engagements, working with the shareholders of these companies as well so that they can invest more responsibly in the food company. And then the other group that we hope to eventually work with are the consumer associations. The groups that would represent consumers so that they can put appropriate pressure on the demand side, you know. They can demand healthier food. It's not that we believe by running an index somehow companies are going to start doing everything right. No. We want to provide data and analysis to the sector so that all the stakeholders can use it to help influence change. That makes perfect sense to have some data driven enterprise to figure out what's actually going on. Otherwise, you're just having to go on intuition. So, what did the most recent index find? Right, so out of those 30 companies, what did we find? There's some good news. Let's start with the good news before we get into the bad news. There's maybe more bad news than good news. In aggregate, we're actually now seeing that 34 percent of the revenue derived from the products that we profiled, those 52,000 products, is based on healthier sales. Meaning 34 percent could be considered healthier foods. That doesn't sound great, maybe, but consider just 4 years ago when we ran this index, it was at 27%. So, there's some marginal increase and maybe if we can accelerate things, and that's what we're trying to do, it's our big strategic objective. We hope that by 2030, we could say that at least half of business' revenue is coming from healthier food options. There's a lot of changes that need to take place to get to that point, but some companies are doing it. Also, we noticed a lot more companies are now starting to use a government endorsed nutrient profile model to define the healthiness of the food products, to measure and monitor the healthiness of their food portfolios, and then to disclose that. That's really good. It's the beginning. First step is measure, disclose. The second step would be put targets on that and actually start to get substantive change towards 2030. But there was a lot of unfortunate news too. We had some backsliding from some of the major companies. For example, low- and middle-income countries actually had the lowest health score. What we think is happening, based on the data we looked at, is that if you're a low-income country, you're getting the lowest healthiness score of these products in your country. So, brand X would be slightly healthier in Europe, but less healthy in the low-income country. So there's a need for regulation there. Can I stop and ask you a question about that? I've got a million questions just flying out of my head that I'm dying to ask. But what you reminded me of is the history of the tobacco industry. When the policies came into play, like very high taxes and banning smoking in public places in the developed countries, US specifically, the smoking rates went way down. But the companies made more money than ever because they just went outside the US. Especially the developing countries and were selling their products. So, it sounds like the food companies might be engaged in a similar enterprise. But why in these countries would they be pushing their least healthy foods so aggressively? I'll start with the facts, because there's some speculation here. But the fact is, if you look at your own monitored data, the highest growth of the modern food retailers is in Africa. So, you've got, for example, 80 to 300 percent growth over the last 5 years in Africa of these modern food retail shops. And in Asia, that's, that's already happened. Still happening in some countries. So, you have enormous opportunity for packaged foods, right? Because that's usually what they're selling, these retailers. I think you have some aspiration going on there, too. I think there's consumers who aspire to have convenient foods. They're more affordable now as incomes increase in those settings. Now, regulation is definitely, in general, in those countries, not as mature as it might be in Europe when it comes to colorants, and taxing, say, sugar sweet beverages. So, what you've asked, I think there's some truth to it. I don't want to come out and say that that's exactly what's happening, but we ran the numbers and the healthiness score. So, we use a five-star rating system. The Health Star rating system, one to five. Anything 3.5 or above, we would consider healthier in a diet. 3.4 and below would be considered unhealthy. And the score in low-income countries was 1.8. And in middle to high income, it was 2.4. So, it's quite a, quite a big difference. That's really very striking. You know, I guess if I'm a food company and I just want to maximize my profits, which of course companies are in business to do, then what I'm going to sell are the foods that people eat the most of. Those are the ones that are triggering the brain biology, the 'over consume'. And the ones that have the greatest shelf life and are easiest to produce and things like that. So, I'm going to make processed foods and push those into new markets as aggressively as I can. So, I'm not asking you to think through the corporate mindset about what's driving this. But it sounds like the data that you have, the end product of all these practices, would be consistent with thinking like that. We like to think that there could be a role for healthier processed foods. But it has to be in moderation. So, what we looked at is the materiality of nutrition. Are companies actually able to have their business and have a healthier food portfolio? So, before we ran the global index, we did an assessment of this. And what we found is that if you're a mixed food company, and you decide to reformulate so that over time you have a healthier food portfolio, in fact, we found that their capital valuations and how they did on the market was slightly better. Not a lot. Than their say, less healthy counterparts. So, what we see is the beginning of a 'health is wealth' sort of narrative. And we hope that we can drive that forward. And of course, policy would help a lot. If policy would come out and say, let's tax the bad, subsidize the good. Then I think industry is going to fall in line. So, we're not sympathetic with industry because a lot of what's happening is not good. On the other hand, we're realists. And we know that these companies are not going away. And we need to make sure that what they offer is as healthy as it should be. And there's a role for everybody in that. All right, that's such an interesting perspective. So, you talked about the global findings. What can you say about the US in particular? What I'd like to do is actually refer to our 2022 US index. So, we did a deep dive just recently; October 2022, right after Biden's Nutrition Conference in DC. And, it wasn't really positive in the sense that we looked at 11 companies. The 11 biggest companies representing 170 billion revenues in the US. And 30 percent of all US food and beverage sales were based on healthier food options. Now, that was 4 years after we ran a 2018 US index. So, 2018, same thing, 30%. There's no change. It's still as unhealthy as ever. I think we need the US to come on board here because it is such a leader. A lot of these companies are headquartered in the US. So, we need to see that healthiness score go up in the US. You know, it's interesting some of the things you mentioned companies might be doing outside the US would be helpful if they did take place in the US. Like front of package labeling would be one example of that. So that would be a place where American companies are behind the curve, and it would be helpful if they caught up. It'd be interesting to dissect the reasons for why they are. But it's interesting that they are. What are some of the things businesses are doing to improve nutrition outcomes? Let's talk maybe on the more positive side. Do you think there's progress overall? It sounds like it from the numbers that you're presenting. But are there signs also of backsliding? And what do you think some of the successes have been? Yes, and I think we can get specific on a few. There's a company headquartered in Mexico, Grupo Bimbo. They rose up in the rankings six places between our 2021 Global Index and this one in 2024. They've been reformulating. They've been making their product portfolio healthier overall. It's about 50 percent now. I think some of that was their own initiative, but it was also prompted by a lot of Latin America's regulations, which is great. I think we can learn a lot from Latin America when it comes to front of pack labels and taxes. So, Group of Bimbo was a good success story. Arla, a Danish dairy company, they came out on top in the index in terms of marketing. So, they have basically said they're not going to market unhealthy foods to children under the age of 16. And they try to even go to 18, but it isn't quite being monitored across all digital platforms. And that's the next level is to take it to the digital platforms and monitor that. And that was a bit disappointing in general, just to find that out of the 30 companies, not one is able to come out and say that they followed the WHO Guidelines on Responsible Marketing 100 percent. The latest index shows that nine out of the 30 companies now, or 30%, nine out of the 30 companies are now using a government endorsed nutrient profile model to define healthy, and then monitor that across their portfolios. And that's a lot of progress. There were only a handful doing that just four years ago. We would ask that all 30 use an NPM, a nutrient profile model, but nine is getting somewhere. So, we're seeing some progress. Boy, if not a single company met the WHO Guidelines for Food Marketing it shows how tenacious those practices are. And how important they are to the company's bottom line to be able to protect that right to market to kids, vulnerable populations, to everybody really. So it really speaks to keeping that topic in the limelight because it's so important. We'd like investors to come out and say they will only invest in companies that are moving towards a 2030 target of marketing response. Zeroing in on 1) responsible marketing and 2) the healthiness food product. Zero in on those two things make really clear what the metrics are to measure that. So, you've mentioned several times, a very important, potentially very important group: shareholders. And you said that that's one of the stakeholders that you interact with. Are there signs out there of activist stakeholders? Shareholders that are putting pressure on the companies to change the way they do business. Yes. So, institutional investors have the ability to talk directly to the board, right? And they have the power in many cases to remove the CEO. So, they're a powerful group, obviously, and we've worked with over 80 now. And had them work with us to understand what investing in a progressive food company would look like. It's making better and better decisions, continuous improvements on nutrition. We have 87, I think is the latest count, who have signed a declaration to invest like this in a food healthier business. They represent $21 trillion of assets under management. It's a very powerful group. Now are all 80 actively, like you mentioned activist shareholders, you know, pushing, say, for example, for resolution. No. Some are. And they're using our data for that. And we applaud any kind of action towards better nutrition, healthier foods, better marketing using our data. We, as ATNI, do not sign these shareholder resolutions. But we absolutely will make our data available as a public good so that they can be used by this powerful group to yeah, hold the companies to account and hopefully invest in the long term. That's what it comes down to. Because it's true that this will take time for the benefits to come to both business and to people, but it's worth it. And I think the longer-term investors get it. And that's why they're doing these shareholder resolutions and different other investor escalation strategy. That strikes me as being pretty good news. Let's go down this road just a little bit further, talking about this, the shareholders. So, if the shareholders are starting to put, some at least, are putting pressure on the companies to go in a healthier direction, what do you think is motivating that? Do they see some big risk thing down the road that they're trying to anticipate and avoid? Is it policies that if the companies don't behave, governments might feel more emboldened to enact? Is it litigation that they see? What are they trying to avoid that's making them put pressure on the companies to move in these directions? That's a great question. When we ran the materiality assessment on nutrition earlier this year, we interviewed many of the investors and it seemed to come down to three things. One, there is coming regulation. There's more and more evidence that when you regulate the food system and you regulate food industry, and you do it in a smart way through a two-tiered levy system, for example, on sugar sweetened beverages. You tax the company, not the consumer. It actually does work. You have a decrease in consumption of these beverages. So coming regulation. The other one is increasing consumer demand for healthier options. Now, that might not be happening yet everywhere. And I think it only really happens when people can afford to demand healthier foods, right? But it seems like it's a trend everywhere as incomes increase and people's knowledge and understanding of nutrition increases, they do want healthier options. So, I think investors see that coming. And the third one is healthcare bills. Now, the investors don't always pick that up. Although in the case of some of our insurance companies who we work with, like AXA, it does. But they see the big macroeconomic picture. And we were talking to one of the investors last week, and they said it's all about megatrends. For them it's about investing in the megatrends, and they see this as a mega trend. This, you know, growing obesity, the cost related to obesity, growing costs related to diabetes and all NCDs. And they don't want to be investing in that future. We need to be investing in a healthier future. I think those are the three things we're gathering from the investors. So, Greg, there's sort of this jarring reality, it seems to me. And other people have written about this as well. That if the world becomes healthier with respect to its diet; let's just say you could wave a magic wand and obesity would go from its very high levels now to much lower levels or even zero. It means the world would be having to eat less food and the companies would be selling less food. And then you superimpose upon that another jarring reality that people simply buy more, eat more, of less healthy options. So, if a child sits down in front of a bowl of plain cornflakes, they're going to eat X amount. If that's sugar frosted flakes, they're going to eat, you know, 1.5 X or 2 X or whatever the number is. So, how can the companies try to make as much money as possible and be true to its shareholders and shareholders while at the same time, facing these realities. That's a great question. It goes to the heart of what we're trying to do at ATNI. That's why we say we're transforming markets for nutrition. Because if we don't help support that underlying market change, then we won't get very far in a sustainable way. You mentioned calories and over consumption. And that, of course, is part of the problem, but I think it's equally fair to say not all calories are treated the same and we need to look at the ingredients going into these food products to begin with. You know, why is sugar or any kind of corn derivative such an attractive cheap ingredient to put into food? And so bad for people if it's not eaten with anything else, if it's just an empty carb, for example. It's because of the subsidies, the billions of dollars of subsidies going into sugar around the world. In the United States, a very large subsidy going to the corn industry. And so, corn is then turned into many types of derivatives, many different types of ingredients that go into our foods. So, that's one thing. I think the other is that there's a big role for food policy to level the playing field. We hear this all the time from our industry partners, and we tend to agree. You know if two or three of the 30 companies that we just indexed stick their neck out and do something good, it'll work for two or three years until the other 27 start to undercut them. And if they're somehow making, you know, better money, bigger profits, more market share it's going to be very tempting for the three that made the good decisions to go back to what they were doing before. We have to change the market structure and end the perverse market incentives. Makes sense. One final question. What can policymakers do? I think we've touched on it a little bit. There's the fiscal policy space, which we're very excited about at ATNI. There are over 100 jurisdictions now that have put in place some kind of sugar sweetened beverage tax. But why not expand that take it to any kind of product which is too high in sugar, right? And again, make it like a proper levy on the company and not the consumer. Because that's where the evidence is that it works. Subsidies, you know, there's very few countries which are subsidizing healthier foods. Instead, you're seeing subsidies, as we just mentioned, going to the wrong kind of product. So that's one. And here's a new one: environmental, social, and governance investing metrics. As countries start to mandate the disclosure requirements for publicly listed companies, why not include two nutrition metrics? One on marketing, one on healthiness, so that every food company is mandated to disclose information on these things. That would be a real innovative way for policymakers to help regulate things. And front of pack labeling. You mentioned it yourself earlier. We would agree clear front of pack labels. So, the consumers know what's healthy and what's not. BIO Greg S Garrett is the Executive Director of ATNI (Access to Nutrition Initiative), a global foundation supporting market change for nutrition. Greg has held several leadership roles over the past twenty years, including serving on the Global Executive Team of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), directing Abt Global's health reform in Kyrgyzstan and leading strategy at ThinkWell, a global health organization. During his eight years with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Greg served as Director of Food Fortification and Director of Policy & Financing during which time he established a multi-million-dollar financing facility and managed a portfolio that reached one billion people with fortified foods. Greg serves on the Global Nutrition Report's Stakeholder Group and is a member of the Blended Finance TaskForce. He holds a BA and an MSc in International Development from the University of Bath, UK.

Mkutano wa Umoja wa Mataifa wa mabadiliko ya tabianchi COP29 leo ukiingia siku ya nne  mjini Baku Azerbaijan vijana kutoka Afrika wataka ufadhili uongezwe kutoka mataifa makubwa hususan yanayochangia zaidi hewa ukaa ili kudhibiti athari za mabadiliko ya tabianchi kwa mataifa yanayoendelea ambapomiongoni mwa waathirika wakubwa ni vijana.  Asante Bosco na mmoja wa washiriki hao ni Patricial Kombo Mumbua kutoka Kenya  akiwasilisha matakwa ya vijana katika mkutano huo, na akizungumza na UN News  kuhusu ujumbe wake kwa COP29 amesema“Kwangu kama kiongozi wa vijana jambo la kwanza ni kuweza kupata zile fedha au kuzikusanya ili ziweze kusaidia mataifa ambayo yanapambana na kukabiliwa na changamoto ya mabadiliko ya tabianchi . Pili ni kuhakikisha kuwa viongozi kutoka mataifa ambayo yanazalisha zaidi hewa ukaa yanawajibika ili kuyafanya matifa ambayo yanaendelea kuweza kujilinda , kunufaika , kujiinua dhidi ya janga hilo na pia kujenga mnepo dhidi ya mabadiliko ya tabianchi katika jamii zao.”Na nini anachokitarajia katika mkutano huo wa COP29?“Ni kuweza kuona kuwa hili kongamano litaweza kuhamasisha upatikanaji wa hizo hela kwa mataifa ambayo yanakabiliwa na hizi changamoto za mabadiliko ya tabianchi, Na pia wakati ambapo mataifa yanaendelea kurekebisha michango yao ya kitaifa ya mabadiliko ya tabianchi au NDCs, waweze kuleta michango ambayo inaaambatana na zile changamoto ambazo mataifa yao yanazidi kuathiirika nazo za mabadiliko ya tabianchi.”Mbali ya masuala ya ufadhil mada zingine zinazotamalaki kwenye mijadala ya leo COP29 ni masuala ya nishani safi , mifumo ya tahadhari za mapemba na athari za mabadiliko ya tabianchi kwa matifa ya visiwa vidogo vinavyoendelea.

Asyraf has struggled with eczema since he was in preschool, growing up with the constant skin redness, persistent itching, and unpredictable flare-ups. Now 18, Asyraf is feeling hopeful for the first time, as he is receiving advanced therapy to control his eczema. On this episode of NCD Chronicles, he shares about the challenges he faced as a child and teenager with eczema, while consultant dermatologist Dato' Dr Noor Zalmy Azizan delves into how the itch associated with eczema isn't just merely an allergic reaction. We also explore eczema management strategies, from moisturisers to biologics. Find out how the Malaysian Skin Foundation can provide financial assistance for advanced therapies.NCD Chronicles is a series about people living with NCDs, going beyond the diagnosis to explore their personal experiences, their challenges, as well as the impact of their health condition on their loved ones. These stories reveal the importance of understanding the unique struggles and needs of the individuals behind the disease, in our response to the NCD epidemic.Image credit: Shutterstock

The Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Elderly Affairs has strengthened its fight against chronic illnesses by hosting a Capacity Building Workshop as part of the island-wide Capacity Building Project for the Prevention and Control of Metabolic Chronic Diseases. Over two days, healthcare professionals from across Saint Lucia enhanced their expertise in managing non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly diabetes and hypertension, two of the island's most pressing health concerns.  The workshop provided an invaluable platform for healthcare workers to gain the latest knowledge and tools necessary for improving the prevention, management, and control of chronic diseases. Through a series of expert presentations and engaging discussions, participants shared ideas, explored new strategies, and developed actionable plans to mitigate the growing burden of NCDs in the nation. 

What is it like living with a chronic condition from birth and to have a lifetime of managing health complications that would never go away? That's the reality for people born with spina bifida, one of the most congenital birth defects in the world. In this episode of NCD Chronicles, we hear from Su Xiao Vin, a person with spina bifida, on the challenges of living with less visible disabilities and how it affected her both at school and, later, at work. We also hear from Prof Dr Amaramalar Selvi Naicker, consultant rehabilitation physician and co-founder of Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus Association Malaysia (SIBIAM).NCD Chronicles is a series about people living with NCDs, going beyond the diagnosis to explore their personal experiences, their challenges, as well as the impact of their health condition on their loved ones. These stories reveal the importance of understanding the unique struggles and needs of the individuals behind the disease, in our response to the NCD epidemic. —SIBIAM is organising the 30th International Conference on Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus from 24th to 26th October in Kuala Lumpur, the first time this international event is hosted in Southeast Asia. To find out more and support the work of the conference and SIBIAM, go to www.sibiam.my.Image Credit: Su Xiao Vin

The Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Elderly Affairs brought vibrant energy to the Micoud community as it successfully celebrated Caribbean Wellness Day with a dynamic Health Fair at the Micoud Wellness Centre on Friday, September 15, 2024. The Health Fair provided an invaluable opportunity for residents to take charge of their health by fostering a renewed sense of community wellness and vitality. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including diabetes, hypertension, stroke, heart attacks, and mental health disorders, are closely tied to unhealthy diet, insufficient physical activity, tobacco smoking and alcohol abuse. Addressing these health challenges requires a concerted effort from both individuals and the healthcare system.

Bongani Bingwa speaks with Rebone Ntsie, Acting Chief Director for Noncommunicable Diseases at The National Health Department, about the country's escalating health crisis, with diabetes remaining the second leading cause of death, as well as educational risk factors and the emerging pandemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This podcast features Nurgul Dzhanaeva, President of the Forum of Women's NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, who has worked on SDG-related issues at the local, national, regional and global levels. From 2016-2019, she was instrumental in initiating the campaign “From Global to Local” which sought to integrate SDG Goal 5 – to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls – into Kyrgyzstan's local sustainable development strategies and plans.She is in conversation with Shobha Shukla, CNS Founder Executive Director and feminist development justice leader, at the Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF 2024) in Chiang Mai, Thailand.Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by young feminist Ms Tara Iyer Shukla from UK.Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.ThanksCNS team

This podcast features Nalini Singh, a noted Fiji's human rights activist and Executive Director of Fiji Women's Rights Movement (FWRM). She is in conversation with Shobha Shukla, a feminist development justice activist and CNS Founder Executive Director around the 4th Asia Pacific Feminist Forum on the theme of: Feminist world building - creative energies, collective journeys in Chiang Mai, Thailand.Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by young feminists Ms Tara Iyer Shukla and Ms Reya Iyer Shukla from UK.Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.ThanksCNS team

Caribbean Wellness Day, first established in 2007 as part of a regional response to the growing threat of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), aims to increase public awareness of the importance of adopting healthy habits, including regular physical activity, healthy eating, and mental well-being. Each year, the day is observed across the Caribbean with events and initiatives designed to engage communities and promote health and wellness at all levels.    In Saint Lucia, the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs has ramped up its CWD celebration, engaging a wide range of partners to amplify the message of collective responsibility in promoting healthier communities. Schools, health organizations and community groups are working together to support and drive participation in the events planned throughout the week. The Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Elderly Affairs is inviting the public to participate in a Health Fair on Friday, September 13th, 2024, at the Micoud Wellness Centre starting at 10:00 AM, and in the Wellness Walk on Sunday, September 15th, 2024, at the Vieux Fort Philip Marcellin Grounds to the Laborie Playing Field from 5:30 AM. Both events are part of the observance of Caribbean Wellness Day 2024.

The week-long observance of Caribbean Wellness Day in Saint Lucia commenced with the Caribbean Wellness Day Sports and Wellness Fair held at the Leon Hess Secondary School. The Wellness Fair brought together a wide range of participants, including students, teachers, healthcare professionals, and other key stakeholders, for a day of engaging activities focused on fitness and health education.  This year's theme, “Power Through Collective Action”, emphasizes the vital role of communities, schools, and institutions in fostering healthier lifestyles and addressing the rise of NCDs. The Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Elderly Affairs is inviting the public to participate in a Health Fair on Friday, September 13th, 2024, at the Micoud Wellness Centre starting at 10:00 AM, and in the Wellness Walk on Sunday, September 15th, 2024, at the Vieux Fort Philip Marcellin Grounds to the Laborie Playing Field from 5:30 AM. Both events are part of the observance of Caribbean Wellness Day 2024.

This special Podcast features Dr Po-Lin Chan, Regional Advisor (HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections - STIs) at World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Regional Office, and Dr Ishwar Gilada, who is a part of Organising Committee of 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) and Governing Council of International AIDS Society (IAS). They were in conversation with CNS Founder Executive Director and Managing Editor Shobha Shukla in Munich Germany. CNS is among the official media partners of AIDS 2024.Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by Ms Reya Iyer Shukla from UK.Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.ThanksCNS team

This special Podcast features leaders from 2024 Asia Pacific Feminist Forum #APFF4 (Chiang Mai, Thailand: 12-14 September 2024). The theme of APFF4 is "Feminist world-building: Creative energies, collective journeys." Panelists include: Abia Akram, a disability rights activist and the founder and CEO of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan; Eni Lestari, a migrant rights activist and the Chairperson of International Migrants Alliance; Ivy Josiah, a women's rights activist who has led Malaysia's Women's Aid Organisation for 20 years as its Past President and Executive Director. They are in conversation with CNS founder Executive Director and feminist leader Shobha Shukla.For more information on APFF4, click here. Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by a 7 years old feminist Ms Tara Iyer Shukla from UK.Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.ThanksCNS team

For several months, JC suffered chest pains mimicking a heart attack. The tightening spread from his chest, up towards his neck. Then without warning, the heel pain appeared. He also had severe, unexplained fatigue. For a year, he battled these unpredictable symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis (now known as axial spondyloarthritis or AS), with little guidance. Now, with the help of the right treatment and a healthy fitness regime, JC's symptoms are well-managed, and he advocates for other people living with AS. Listen to his journey on this episode of NCD Chronicles and visit Axial Spondyloarthritis Malaysia to find out more about the local patient support group. NCD Chronicles is a series about people living with NCDs, going beyond the diagnosis to explore their personal experiences, their challenges, as well as the impact of their health condition on their loved ones. These stories reveal the importance of understanding the unique struggles and needs of the individuals behind the disease, in our response to the NCD epidemic.

Regulations can help reduce the exposure of persons to NCDs. - Dr. Nsiah-Boateng

The silent epidemic killing many people.

สมัครสมาชิก YouTube Membership ของ Mission To The Moon ได้ที่ https://bit.ly/3HAjwOI (จากนั้นคลิก “สมัคร” หรือ “Join”) . รู้หรือไม่ว่า 75% ของประชากรไทย เสียชีวิตด้วยโรค NCDs หรือโรคไม่ติดต่อเรื้อรัง? . NCDs เป็นกลุ่มโรคที่ไม่ได้เกิดจากเชื้อโรค และไม่สามารถแพร่เชื้อระบาดได้ แต่เป็นผลมาจาก “พฤติกรรมไม่ดี” ที่เราทำเป็นนิสัย ซึ่งสะสมมากับการใช้ชีวิตประจำวัน เมื่อเวลาผ่านไป พฤติกรรมเหล่านี้อาจก่อให้เกิดโรคที่ร้ายแรงซึ่งมีความเสี่ยงต่อชีวิตอย่างมาก . ใน MM Podcast EP. นี้ เราจะพาไปรู้จักกับ 8 โรคร้าย NCDs เพื่อเสริมสร้างความเข้าใจและการป้องกัน เพราะยิ่งรู้ไว เราก็ยิ่งป้องกันความเสี่ยงได้ทัน! . . เชิญรับฟังพร้อมๆ กันได้ใน MM Podcast EP.2154 | รู้ทันโรคร้าย NCDs ที่คร่าชีวิตคนไทยสูง . สนใจยกระดับประสิทธิภาพการทำงานของคุณด้วยโปรแกรมเงินเดือน ByteHR ที่จะเปลี่ยนระบบเงินเดือนของคุณให้ทำงานได้อย่างราบรื่น แม่นยำ และมีประสิทธิภาพ . ติดต่อ ByteHR วันนี้! ได้ที่ 02-0263297 กด 1 หรือ byte-hr.com . . #สุขภาพ #โรค #พอดแคสต์ #podcast #missiontothemoon #missiontothemoonpodcast

สมัครสมาชิก YouTube Membership ของ Mission To The Moon ได้ที่ https://bit.ly/3HAjwOI (จากนั้นคลิก “สมัคร” หรือ “Join”) . รู้หรือไม่ว่า 75% ของประชากรไทย เสียชีวิตด้วยโรค NCDs หรือโรคไม่ติดต่อเรื้อรัง? . NCDs เป็นกลุ่มโรคที่ไม่ได้เกิดจากเชื้อโรค และไม่สามารถแพร่เชื้อระบาดได้ แต่เป็นผลมาจาก “พฤติกรรมไม่ดี” ที่เราทำเป็นนิสัย ซึ่งสะสมมากับการใช้ชีวิตประจำวัน เมื่อเวลาผ่านไป พฤติกรรมเหล่านี้อาจก่อให้เกิดโรคที่ร้ายแรงซึ่งมีความเสี่ยงต่อชีวิตอย่างมาก . ใน MM Podcast EP. นี้ เราจะพาไปรู้จักกับ 8 โรคร้าย NCDs เพื่อเสริมสร้างความเข้าใจและการป้องกัน เพราะยิ่งรู้ไว เราก็ยิ่งป้องกันความเสี่ยงได้ทัน! . . เชิญรับฟังพร้อมๆ กันได้ใน MM Podcast EP.2154 | รู้ทันโรคร้าย NCDs ที่คร่าชีวิตคนไทยสูง . สนใจยกระดับประสิทธิภาพการทำงานของคุณด้วยโปรแกรมเงินเดือน ByteHR ที่จะเปลี่ยนระบบเงินเดือนของคุณให้ทำงานได้อย่างราบรื่น แม่นยำ และมีประสิทธิภาพ . ติดต่อ ByteHR วันนี้! ได้ที่ 02-0263297 กด 1 หรือ byte-hr.com . . #สุขภาพ #โรค #พอดแคสต์ #podcast #missiontothemoon #missiontothemoonpodcast

According to the 2023 National Health & Morbidity Survey by the Ministry of Health, over half a million adults living in Malaysia live with 4 non-communicable diseases or NCDs. What implications does this pose for our healthcare system? We discuss the findings of the survey and policy responses required with Dr. Murallitharan Munisamy, Co-Chairperson of NCD Malaysia.Image Credit: Shutterstock.com

A rule going back several years, lets Defense Department contracting officers treat stuff from so-called non-traditional vendors --known as NCDs -- as commercial. Just this month, the Defense Pricing and Contracting unit issued a memo underscoring that authority. For why this matters, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with Haynes & Boone procurement attorney Dan Ramish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A rule going back several years, lets Defense Department contracting officers treat stuff from so-called non-traditional vendors --known as NCDs -- as commercial. Just this month, the Defense Pricing and Contracting unit issued a memo underscoring that authority. For why this matters, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with Haynes & Boone procurement attorney Dan Ramish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dr. Nalini Saligram is the founder of Arogya World - UN award recipient creating awareness and prevention of non communicable diseases (NCDs) in India that has reached more than 13 million people.She is an Ashoka award recipient. Nalini serves on the Dean's Council at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Previously, she held executive positions at Glaxo SmithKline, Merck, and Merial. She is an alum of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theindustryshow/support

Surfing the MASH Tsunami kicks off its 2023 wrap-up conversations with Jeff Lazarus, the 2023 winner of the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the American Liver Foundation. He discusses three core MASLD-related opportunities for which he played a key role in 2023: the Research in Action initiative, the new MASLD nomenclature process and the Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives coalition.Most of this discussion focuses on Jeff's work leading the Research in Action coalition. As Jeff notes, this was the first time the MASLD "field has set its own agenda." Absent governmental or not-for-profit agencies driving the discussion, a group that has grown to over 400 collaborators published its own action agenda in AASLD and EASL publications. Jeff discusses the process through which he built this consensus, focusing on domains identified in earlier meetings: (i) treatment and care; (ii) models of care; (lll) increased awareness; and (iv) leadership. Jeff feels the legitimacy of this activity comes from "casting the net wide" with a series of Wilton Park meetings and from demonstrating how far MASLD lagged behind other non-communicable diseases in terms of goal development, structured support and public presence. Another key element in the initiative's success was a side event at the World Health Assembly led by the four major hepatology organizations, including not only AASLD and EASL but also APASL, and ALEH. Efforts to create parity with other non-communicable diseases will result in increased funding and "massive" increases in awareness.Today, the other NCDs mention other related metabolic diseases but not MASLD or MASH. Another example of the lack of urgency around MASLD: NIH just put out a call for funding for HIV, which Jeff notes might not be as high a priority in 2024 as MASLD.At this point, Jörn Schattenberg joins the conversation to congratulate Jeff on his recognition and award and also to discuss how important it is to the entire community that Jeff plays the role he does. In response, Jeff comments that one benefit of the Award is that it ratifies the importance of the kinds of consensus building and application of public health initiatives in MASLD space.From here, Jeff and Jörn step further forward to discuss the importance of funding prevention and education programs, done by governments in the EU and perhaps public or private players in the US. Jörn discusses the multidisciplinary nature of the Barcelona meeting they co-chair and how it provides outreach beyond hepatology. Jeff continues the thought to discuss the importance of social determinants of health (for example, food insecurity) in a world where healthy foods cost far more than more common alternatives (basmati rice costs 3x basic white rice).Roger asks how the new nomenclature is proceeding. Jeff says it is doing quite well in that there is significant global buy-in. Major centers around the world are adopting the new nomenclature for their meetings and clinics, but, Jeff notes, it is difficult for physicians to explain the disease to patients without using the words "fat" or "fatty."As the conversation winds up, Jeff notes the importance of bringing primary care to the education and outreach processes and the goal of doubling the number of patients screened over the next four years. The conversation closes on this note: much that must be done, but confidence that the energy to achieve these big goals is coalescing properly.

We explore the transformative synergy of art and health, and how art can positively help tackle noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – from cardiovascular diseases to cancer. Join us as we discuss the healing potential of art interventions with experts from WHO/Europe's Special Initiative on NCDs and Innovation and Behavioural and Cultural insights units. Read more in the new WHO/Europe report “Learning from the arts” here: The power of healing: new WHO report shows how arts can help beat noncommunicable diseases

Angela Lu is training to be a physician. She's interested in public policy. As a third year medical student, she teamed up with established leaders to ask a unique question regarding public disclosure of financial relationships. When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issues National Coverage Determinations (NCDs) for services or products, they mean business. Such decisions have huge implications. You cannot go against them. Think #HighConsequences.CMS studies the evidence and publishes a proposed decision. It then allows public comments. People care. The idea behind their study, which made it into the Journal of the American Medical Association, was to study how many commenters disclosed their financial conflicts. Dr. Lu went through more than 680 comments submitted on 4 NCDs—all of which were high cost invasive procedures. I won't spoil the conversation, but they found a very high percentages of comments asking to expand indications for these procedures and very very low percentages of people who disclosed their relevant relationships. This study was made possible by the Open Payments database. One important note: disclosure of relationships was voluntary. Enjoy the conversation. Thanks for listening. JMM This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sensible-med.com/subscribe

Cook Islands shifts focus from Covid to fighting non-communicable diseases.

Have you ever been told no for an opportunity that you knew was perfect for you? What did you do?   Our guest today, Andrea Feigl, the CEO and founder of the Health Finance Institute has a strategy for getting past those roadblocks and succeeding in her efforts.  Her story is an inspiring example of what it means to be your own conduit of change.  Her journey, which began growing up in a small town in Austria, has taken her to many prestigious organizations such as Harvard, where she got her PhD and was a visiting scientist from 2015-2020, the WHO and OECD.  Currently, and the founder and ceo of the Health Finance Institute, she is changing  the world through innovative approaches to end the human suffering that is caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and mental health conditions.   Even if you're planning to make more local changes through your leadership, her story provides key steps you can start working on right away.Resources:Health Finance InstituteFollow Andrea on LinkedInShow notes for transcript, episode insights, and resources************************************************************Are you currently leading a team or have you led a team in the past? We'd love to buy you a coffee/tea in exchange for 5 minutes of your time to provide your input on the podcast, leadership development, and team development.Access the survey and secure your coffee/tea gift card here: https://becomestrongertoserve.com/coffeeConnect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teri-m-schmidt/Energize and Sustain Your Team's Performance with our Learn By Doing (Good) Teambuilding Events: https://www.strongertoserve.com/teambuildingGet 1-on-1 leadership support from Teri here: https://www.strongertoserve.com/coachingSet up a free discovery call with Teri: https://calendly.com/terischmidt/discoverycall

Mick Polo literally grew up in his family's medical billing business. Today as president of NCDS Medical Billing and past president of HBMA, he's navigated the healthcare landscape for nearly three decades. In this episode, he shares with host Chanie Gluck the top challenges in healthcare today, the hottest specialties, and how businesses can get creative packaging what they do in different ways to appeal to new customers.   Show notes: 00 - 3:05 How Mick got started with NCDS and how he joined and now runs the family business 3:30 - 5:23 Family business and transitioning to being the President. 5:25 - 10:37 Getting involved with HBMA, working on the HBMA Commerical Payor Committee and being Past President of HBMA 10:37 - 13:55 Payor issues long hold times and getting providers credentialed 13:56 - 17:19 The future of healthcare, physician groups have largely been acquired by hospitals and large practices. Has a la carte services in his medical billing company such as clearinghouse, credentialing, coding and MIPS services 17:33 - 18:49 Hiring good employees is a current challenge 18:50 - 20:50 Mick shares his positive experience with offshoring 20:51 - 22:29 Billing software 22:30 - 24:15 Specialties NCDS serves: mental behavioral health, PT, OT and physician groups 25:00 - Mick's 3 year goals are to continue to grow NCDS looking for an acquistion. Video meetings have been a great development to connect with clients and prospects. www.ncdsinc.com      

Hii leo jaridani tuanaangazi ripoti ya WHO ya vikoleza utamu visivyo sukari halisia, na huduma za afya zizazotolewa nchini Malawai kupitia kilniki za kuhama kwa njia ya magari.  Makala tunakupeleka nchini DRC na mashinani nchini Tanzania, kulikoni?Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la afya ulimwenguni, WHO, hii leo limetoa mwongozo unaoshauri watu wasitumie vikoleza utamu visivyo sukari halisia (NSS) kwa lengo la kupunguza uzito na kuepusha magonjwa yasiyo ya kuambukiza, NCDs. Wananchi wa Malawi walioathirika na Kimbunga Freddy wamepongeza mbinu ya kutumia kilniki za kuhama kwa njia ya magari iliyotumiwa na shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Kuhudumia Watoto (UNICEF) kuwahudumia wanawake na watoto nchini Malawi baada ya kimbunga Freddy kilicholipiga eneo hilo takribani miezi mwili iliyopita.Katika Mkala, leo ikiwa ni siku ya familia duniani nakupeleka Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Congo, DRC ambako huko mwandishi wetu George Musubao amemulika ni vipi familia inajitahidi kukidhi mahitaji licha ya changamoto za usalama.Katika mashinani na tutaelekea nchini Tanzania kusikiliza jinsi ambavyo hakikisho la maji safi na salama linavyokuza nidhamu na kuboresha usafi shuleni.Mwenyeji wako ni Flora Nducha, Karibu!

Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la afya ulimwenguni, WHO, hii leo limetoa mwongozo unaoshauri watu wasitumie vikoleza utamu visivyo sukari halisia (NSS) kwa lengo la kupunguza uzito na kuepusha magonjwa yasiyo ya kuambukiza, NCDs.Taarifa ya WHO iliyotolewa leo Geneva, Uswisi inasema mwongozo huo unafuatia mapitio ya ushahidi unaodokeza kwamba kutumia sukari isiyo halisia kwa ajili ya kupunguza uzito hauna manufaa ya muda mrefu katika kupunguza mafuta mwilini miongoni mwa watoto na watu wazima. Sukari hizo zisizo halisia na ambazo zinatumika ni pamoja na aspartame, advantame, cyclamates, neotame, saccharin, sucralose na stevia. Kitu kibaya zaidi ambacho mapitio hayo yamebaini ni kwamba sukari hizo zisizo halisia zinaongeza hatari ya kupata uognjwa wa kisukari aina ya 2, magonjwa ya moyo na vifo miongoni mwa watu wazima. Mkurugenzi wa WHO Idara ya Lishe na Usalama wa Chakula Dkt. Francesco Branca amesema kuacha kutumia sukari ya kawaida na badala yake kutumia sukari zisizo halisia kwa muda mrefu hakusaidii kupunguza uzito. Amesema “watu wanapaswa kufikiria njia mbadala za kupunguza matumizi ya sukari kwa kula vyakula vyenye sukari ya asili kama vile matunda au vinywaji na vyakula visivyo na sukari.” Amesema “vikoleza utamu visivyo na sukari havina lishe yoyote. Watu wapunguze vyakula vitamu kwenye mlo wao tangu utotoni ili kuimarisha afya zao.” WHO inasema pendekezo hilo linahusu watu wote isipokuwa wale wanaougua kisukari. 

One in three school-aged children in the WHO European Region are living with overweight or obesity, and countries are working hard to break and reverse this trend. In this episode, Julianne Williams, WHO technical officer for Noncommunicable Diseases at the WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of NCDs, and Mirjam Heinen, WHO consultant working for the same Office, talked to us about best evidence-based practices that can help.LINKSChildhood obesity in European Region remains high: new WHO report presents latest country data: https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/08-11-2022-childhood-obesity-in-european-region-remains-high--new-who-report-presents-latest-country-dataReport on the fifth round of data collection, 2018–2020: WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (‎COSI)‎: Report on the fifth round of data collection, 2018–2020: WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (‎COSI)‎WHO European Obesity Report 2022: https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/9789289057738CREDITSHosted by: Aleksandra Olson and Igor KryuchkovEdited by: Igor Kryuchkov and David BarrettSound design by: David BarrettMusic: Science Marimba by Gavin Linnihan, Cool Cats Marimba by Howard ParkerTheme Music by: Ben King

Processed food industries are thriving in developing countries, despite government commitment to eradicating non-communicable diseases, prevention programs aim at reducing obesity, type two diabetes, and sugary beverage consumption. What's more, political leaders in some countries are reluctant to regulate the marketing and sale of these products, particularly among vulnerable groups, like children and the poor. Like me, you might be asking yourself: why? Our guest today is the author of a new book, "Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries Are Reshaping Emerging Economics." His name is Professor Eduardo Gomez, Director of the Institute of Health Policy and Politics, at Lehigh University. Interview Summary   Let's begin with a basic question, what prompted you to write the book?   Great question. It really started, I remember almost the day, when I came across this article written by the New York Times in 2016. This article started to talk about the rise in influence of the sugar industry in the US, and how they were shaping evidence about the connection between the consumption of sugar and heart disease. For many years in the past, that connection was never emphasized when it came to national dietary recommendations. This New York Times article really revealed how powerful and influential these industries were in shaping the evidence and policies on the linkages between sugar and heart disease, and our consumption of these products.   At the same time, I was doing research on obesity policy in Brazil, comparing Brazil to the US, and why Brazil was doing better in the areas of nutritional information, prevention, and awareness about childhood obesity. I also saw that obesity cases were still increasing in Brazil despite these prevention efforts. At the time, I was also starting to work in Mexico and saw similar policies in Mexico being implemented on prevention and awareness, and national dietary guidelines. But still, we saw a rise in obesity, a rise in adolescent diabetes. So those two things - the evidence about how industries manipulate data and dietary guidelines - and then how luncheon programs are really not achieving their goal of reducing childhood obesity in adolescent diabetes. Those puzzles really motivated me in writing this book to really delve deeper into this question. That really required not a journal article, but a book that would do an in-depth historical case study analysis of several countries, and to document and do interviews on how these industries are working with government. And, how government also works with industries in this area of trying to address childhood obesity, and type two adolescent diabetes.   So how did you go about collecting data for the book?   I did a qualitative comparative method, which is a bit different, as you know, from most people working in public health and epidemiological studies about childhood obesity and diabetes. That entailed a comparative historical analysis of several similar case studies. I chose cases in the emerging economies that, I think, reflected the biggest problems with obesity and diabetes in their region. But the goal of the comparison, was really to accentuate similarities between cases, and, also, the vast differences and uniqueness of the cases. I then went about doing the research through document analysis of several different sources, books, articles, policy reports, media news, talking about the issue, both in the English language, and also in the countries of Brazil and Mexico, the Spanish and Portuguese language. I did interviews with activists and researchers in several of these countries, although not all of them. I think bringing together all the different qualitative evidence was very effective in trying to thoroughly address this issue. It's a topic that has not been discussed that much. Bringing together the multiple evidence pieces took a long time.   It produced a wonderfully rich book with lots of interesting information from different sources around the world. I, for one, really appreciate what you've done. So in the book, you have very detailed case studies, as you mentioned, of a number of countries, in particular countries such as Mexico and Brazil, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa. Let's talk about a few of these countries, and then, perhaps, we can return to something that you alluded to a moment ago. That there are quite striking similarities across the countries. So what did you learn about Mexico?   I had lived in Mexico for several years doing research there, and the fast food culture and industry, and the consumption of soda, is extremely high. Compared to the US, Mexico's per capita daily consumption of soda is highest, arguably, in the world. Coca-Cola played a major role in that. Coca-Cola was in Mexico for many, many years, and the NAFTA Free Trade Agreement facilitated the arrival of Coca-Cola, and of many other kinds of ultra-processed foods and industries, into Mexico. Mexico is one of the world leaders in childhood obesity and type two diabetes. The government did, for many years, a good job of raising awareness to this issue. The National Institute of Public Health in Cuernavaca, for example, did fantastic work elevating the issue, convincing the government that something needed to be done about this ongoing health problems, especially among children and the poor.   But what I found is while there was legislation being implemented, it was, a lot of times, delayed, and those policies that were created, such as limiting the presence of sodas within schools, were not really effectively enforced. A lot of parents reporting to schools that their children were still consuming soda products. Of course, everyone knows about the soda tax that was implemented in 2014 in Mexico, becoming the first in the world to have a national soda tax. That's been a very effective effort. But there are several years in which this was debated and delayed, and for many years industries resisted improvements to the food label, which was, eventually, recently accomplished. But all of this started to point to the power and influence of major industries and their interest group.   One thing that I learned in this case is that industries also engage in several partnerships with government to try and take away the focus from regulations and improving food labels, for example. And one partnership is working with government to introduce the importance of exercise in schools. And it's something that we'll see, also, in the case of China. And so that has taken attention away, in addition to the lobbying efforts, and funding science and research sort of questions, from the efficacy of a soda tax. But one thing that was very important is that presidents also matter, and their relationships with industry. One president that really stood out was President Vincente Fox, who was a former Coca-Cola executive for the region. And that relationship facilitated industry's influence within government, and in connecting with politicians in influencing policy over years. But then later, subsequent presidents, like President Enrique Pena Nieto, worked with Nestle to address hunger eradication programs in Mexico.   So these partnerships with industry, while they are admirable in trying to eradicate hunger, they also, at the same time, bring legitimacy to these industries. This facilitates their ability to influence policy. Those was some of the key lessons that I found in Mexico.   So moving to a different part of the world, and, of course, to a different political system, what did you learn about China?   China has seen a burgeoning growth in consumption of soda, and also fast food chain establishments. We've also seen a huge increase in childhood obesity, and adolescent type two diabetes. But was really striking about this case, is that the government has done a great job, not only of increasing awareness about the challenge, but emphasizing the importance of exercise as a primary way to try and address the issue and why this particular approach. Instead of regulation limiting sales and access to foods for children and the poor, in trying to emphasize this idea of exercise. Now I found that through the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), Coca-Cola, and other industry, had an influence. The ILSI found partners within the Ministry of Health, who created the ISLI of China, and through these partnerships, in these connections between I-S-L-I and major health officials, the idea of emphasizing exercise as a solution started to infiltrate, and really shaped government legislation. I cite the excellent work by Susan Greenhalgh at Harvard, who documented a lot of how this was happening. At the same time, we saw industries partnering with government, and government officials emphasizing sports and exercise as an approach. But surprisingly, there was really no effort to introduce regulations on advertising and marketing. Similar to what we've seen in the US, no effective food regulations or mandates on quality of sugar and products. That really was startling, given the huge problem that China's having with childhood obesity. But again, government partnerships with industry on eradicating poverty and achieving economic growth, certainly doesn't help, and overlooks the need to introduce regulations, and sees industry as a partner in trying to achieve China's broader efforts on poverty reduction and economic development.   We're certainly starting to see some themes emerge in the stories that you're telling. So let's go to the third continent. What did you find in South Africa?   South Africa is a very interesting case, where, again, like these other countries, you've seen a rise in obesity and type two diabetes. It's been very challenging because culturally, being overweight has been seen as a sign of health for some. Being thin, being associated with diseases, such as HIV, AIDS, or tuberculosis. So, one of the major hurdles that governments, and activists, have also been trying to address, is information about the health implications of being overweight. And then also the increasing public's knowledge about type two diabetes. Similar to the other cases, you saw government efforts, beginning in 2015, to address the national obesity issue. But there are very, very few effective policies introduced, such as regulations on advertising and marketing. These have basically been introduced as plans and ideas, with no concrete efforts yet. The government relied on self-regulation, where industries pledge not to market their products to children, and to be more responsible in that. Also, there have been no regulations on sales of these foods in and around schools, and no improvements in labels. Why has that been the case? Again, industry has been very involved through policy partnerships, working with government to emphasize, again, exercise. Companies, like Nestle, have done a very good job in providing nutritional education and training to schools. While admirable, these partnerships have distracted the government from pursuing needed regulations, and trying to address these issues, seeing that these industries are partners, and seeing no real need to introduce these regulations. But again, at the same time, presidents matter. You've had presidents with very strong connections to industries. The current president, for example, having been in consulting profession, direct ties to fast food industry. And they've seen these industries as a critical partner in addressing economic development, but especially job security, and job growth, and seeing them as a need to be there in prospering. But, at the same time, you've also seen a civil society that is starting to emerge, but has been challenged by industry's relationship with other nutrition researchers and activists, and not being able to work and create a broader mobilization effort to address this issue. %he activist community is just now starting to emerge. They don't have as many allies in society that they can work with. As we saw in China, that civic activist movement has been just very slowly emerging. That's been limiting as well.   These comments, so far, are consistent across countries. Focusing on physical activity, for example, diverting attention away from industry influences and regulations that might affect them, weakening regulations, and things like that. What do you see as the main themes that are weaving through this picture?   There are several themes. One is policy partnerships - industries partnering with government, and how this helps industry convince policy makers that regulations are not necessary. Those studying commercial determinants of health and nutrition, we all know this, but this has been especially prominent in the emerging economies. Another, is corporate social responsibility activities. There have been so many cases, wonderful efforts, that major soda and food industries are doing to increase education, nutritional awareness and training, even food regulation, and quality of food For example, with street vendors. But again, these CSR activities are taking away, and distracting from the need for regulations, while, at the same time bringing legitimacy, and social legitimacy, community legitimacy, to their product. Another major theme is that these corporate social responsibility activities, for example, sponsoring or providing support to NGOs, that contributes to dividing society. So, when industries partner with certain activists, or NGOs, that question the importance of particular policies, or libertarian principles, of having the right to eat whatever food that you want, whenever industries partners with these researchers and activists, it takes away from the number of activists, real activists, working on the issue can partner with. There are many cases where I interviewed activists are saying that, they don't have as many allies that they can work with, because of these other people. These nutrition researchers working with industry. So that was a major issue that came across. Another was institutions. Institutions matter very much, specifically, their ability to include civil societal interest in ideas. In the case of Brazil, I talk about Consell, a national council that was within the office of the presidency. And under the previous Lula administration, civil society had access to the office of the presidency in providing nutritional information, and recommendations for policy. Under the Bolsonaro administration, the Consell Institution was no longer present. But now it has reemerged again. That was the one case where institutions really mattered in guaranteeing access to activists. In all the other countries, these kinds of institutions were not present. A final theme is that presidential politics and policy matters considerably. We often point the finger to industries, you know, blaming them for everything, but this book really shows that we also need to blame presidents for not being more careful in the kinds of partnerships they engage in with industries. Even though their intentions may be admirable in trying to eradicate hunger, eradicate poverty, achieve economic job growth, by partnering with soda and food industries, they're also providing legitimacy to them, and providing excuses, not really to pursue regulations that may harm their prosperity. Those were the main themes that came out in the book.   So a number of things have been tried around the world to counter industries influence. What do you think are some of the most promising?   The most promising are effective regulations on advertising and sales of products. And there are very, very, very few great examples, but one, Chile, has seen amazing progress in introducing restrictions on the advertising of foods, by law, eliminating the usage of cartoons on cereal boxes, something that, of course, we haven't achieved yet in the US. That's been very effective in addressing this issue. I think that these sales and advertising regulations are just the most difficult to achieve, but can really get to the root of the problem, which is decreasing children's awareness, and interest, in food products. Another is incorporating civil society within institutions. The more the governments can provide a venue for activists to have presence within the Ministry of Health, and to actually introduce policy ideas, that can be very effective. I think that that's been, with the exception of Brazil for several years, absent in all of the countries that I looked at in my book. I think that's something that needs to really be taken more seriously. And then another, is investing in civil society, providing more funding for nutrition researchers, activists, and NGOs, that are trying to raise this issue about childhood obesity, but also the commercial determinants of health. That is still much needed area. The Bloomberg Foundation has done great work in Mexico, but we need a lot more in other emerging economies, and lot more support for these activists. These are efforts that can really help to address this issue.   I'm happy you mentioned the Bloomberg Foundation, because, thanks to them, a number of these things have been evaluated, which really helps other countries be informed about what might be effective, and on what might not be. Are there things that are not being done that you would think might be considered?   I do think that it's time that presidents around the world, and other health officials leaders, question their partnerships with industry. Question if it's really effective. I believe that there should be more of an effort to not have industry involved in nutrition policies, non-communicable disease policies, and, especially, policies that focus on childhood obesity. I think the case of China really showed that that can be a major problem. I think that one, political leaders need to take more leadership in reevaluating the effectiveness of these partnerships, and if they're appropriate. Another is that laws on regulations of conflict of interest need to be well established. Really, in none of the cases that I looked at are there federal laws and regulations on if industries can contribute money to nutrition conferences, sponsoring of nutrition conferences. In Brazil, they are now starting to address this, but in other countries, this has not really been addressed yet. This is unacceptable when there are industries that have conflict of interest, and are supporting nutrition scientists and researchers. One of the things that really needs to be done is increasing government, or foundation, support for nutrition scientists in these emerging economies, so they are not interested in working with industry. Finally, there just needs to be a lot more of a government commitment to civic inclusion in these kinds of policies. We all know the civil society matters. Of course, government officials will always say, of course, you know, we're listening to civil society. But the evidence on to what extent activists have access to national institutions and policy, is very, very scarce. I'm just not convinced that governments are doing enough to include activists into their national policy discussions in these emerging economies. With the exception, I think, of Mexico, now, hopefully, with Brazil, the other emerging economies that I talk about in the book really have not achieved, and I think that needs to be addressed. These are the issues that really need to be addressed going forward.   Bio   Dr. Eduardo J. Gómez is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Health Policy and Politics at Lehigh University. A political scientist by training, his research focuses on the politics of global health policy, with a focus on emerging middle-income countries. He is the author of three books, the latest being Geopolitics in Health: Confronting Obesity, AIDS, and Tuberculosis in the Emerging BRICS Economies (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). Dr. Gómez has published his research in a myriad of peer-reviewed journals, as well as policy journals and major news outlets. His new book, Junk Food Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), critically examines the rise and political influence of soda and ultra-processed food industries in developing nations, with a focus on NCDs among children and the poor. He is also leading several other major research projects focusing on the politics of NCDs, such as type-2 diabetes and obesity, in Mexico, Brazil, and Indonesia. Dr. Gómez is also a Commissioner for the Rockefeller Foundation and Boston University Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. His research has received external funding support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Oxfam, George Soros, and Tinker Foundations. Prior to his arrival at Lehigh, Dr. Gómez was an Associate Professor (UK Senior Lecturer) at King's College London, Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, and pre-doctoral visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has also previously worked for the RAND Corporation, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Dialogue. Dr. Gómez is also a veteran of the United States Air Force and is a former Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received his PhD political science from Brown University, MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.   

Leo ni siku ya afya duniani ujumbe ukiwa ni Afya kwa Wote ambapo walinda amani wa Umoja wa Mataifa kutoka Tanzania wanaohudumu kwenye ujumbe wa Umoja wa Mataifa wa kulinda amani nchini Jamhuri ya kidemokrasia ya Congo, DRC, MONUSCO, wametumia siku hii kuwapima magonjwa yasiyo ya kuambukiza, NCDs, wakazi wa Beni-Mavivi jimboni Kivu. Taarifa zaidi na Afisa habari wa kikundi hich cha tatu cha kikosi cha Tanzania cha kutoa msaada wa haraka, TANZ-QRF-3 ndani ya MONUSCO, Luteni Abubakar Muna.Mganga Mkuu wa TANZQRF-3 Luteni Hussen Sinda amesema “tumeona tuadhimishe siku hii kwa kuwapima afya ndugu zetu wa Nzuma na kuwashauri kuhusu magonjwa yasiyo ya kuambukiza kama vile shinikizo la damu, kisukari na saratani mbalimbali. Magonjwa haya hayaambukizi kutoka mtu mmoja kwenda kwa mwingine, lakini ni magonjwa tunayapata kulingana na namna tunavyoishi maisha yetu.” Tunawashukuru waliobuni siku hii Jusue Kapisa ambaye ni Chifu wa Kata ya Nzuma eneo la Beni-Mavivi anasema ushirikiano kati ya walinda amani wa UN kutoka Tanzania na eneo lao umekuwa ni mzuri tangu kuanza kuweko kwa walinda amani hao. Na zaidi ya yote, tunashukuru viongozi wa afya ulimwenguni kwa kuwazia na kupanga siku ya leo ya kuzungumzia siku ya afya. Sasa hawa viongozi wa afya duniani waone jinsi ya kuendelea kufanya utafiti ili magonjwa yaliyoko duniani na hayana tiba, yapate tiba na wakazi wa dunia waone mambo ya afya yanasonga mbele.” Upatikanaji wa dawa ni shida, waasi wanatukwamisha  Alphonsine Muhindi, mkazi wa kata ya Nzuma ameshiriki pia huduma hii ya kupima afya na baada ya kupata huduma hiyo anafunguka kuhusu changamoto akisema, “tunapitia shida ya afya hapa Nzuma kwa sababu kwenye afya hatuna dawa kwa kuwa hatuna fedha. Ukisema ulime ili upate fedha, sasa ukiwa shambani unasikia waasi wamefika shambani. Hii inaleta dhiki kwa jamaa kwanza, njaa na magonjwa yanazidi kusambaa kwa kuwa hatuna dawa.” Ameshukuru kuweko kwa huduma hii kwa sababu angalau akishapima atajua hali ya afya yao inakuwa ni rahisi kwenda kupata dawa kwani tayari wanafahamu hali yao ya afya na pia kushughulikia watoto. Hoja ya wananchi yajibiwa na TANZ-QRF-3 Kwa Luteni Martha Mapunda, mtaalamu wa masuala ya saikolojia ndani ya TANZ -QRF -3 ombi lake ni kwa MONUSCO kuongeza idadi ya maafisa wa Jinsia zote wenye taaluma ya saikolojia ili waweze kuwasaidia wakazi wa Beni jimboni Kivu kaskazini. Hoja ya uhaba wa dawa unaokabili wakazi wa kata ya Nzuma ikajibiwa na Kapteni Damasi Khaza, Afisa Uhusiano wa TANZ-QRF -3 kwa niaba ya kamanda kikosi Luteni Kanali Adson Mwashifungwe ambapo amesema, utaratibu wa ugawaji dawa utafanyika kwa kuzipeleka kwenye vituo vya afya na hospitali ili zipatiwe wakazi hao.  Taarifa hii imeandaliwa kwa pamoja na Luteni Abubakar Muna Afisa Habari TANZ-QRF -3 na George Musubao 

Did you know that chronic disease is the number one thing killing us in 2023? Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) kill 41 million people each year worldwide, equivalent to 71% of all deaths globally. That statistic is staggering. Don't become a statistic! Instead listen to today's episode of Food Heals with Katherine Maslen, Naturopath and Founder of The Shift Clinics in Australia. When addressing the cause of chronic disease, the number one thing we need to talk about is gut health. What do cancer, autoimmune diseases, allergies, mental health and fertility all have in common? The gut.    That's right! Your microbiome does everything from digesting food to absorbing minerals to regulating your immune system and your hormones. All disease begins in the gut… and that's where healing begins as well! So in this week's episode we couldn't wait to interview an international expert on the topic of gut health, Katherine Maslen.   Katherine got into nutrition after witnessing a close friend's journey through lupus, an autoimmune disease. As she got sicker, her medicine cabinet grew, yet none of these medications had any positive effect on her health. She passed away at just 52.    Katherine knew there just had to be a better way. This is what led her to create the Shift Clinic, an international wellness company that is changing the face of health and empowering people to take control of their healing journey.    Check out Katherine's book Get Well Stay Well to discover the secrets to get back in touch with your body and start thriving.  Listen to the Shift Podcast.  Thank You to Our Sponsors! True Leaf Market Since 1974 True Leaf Market has been the choice of over a million growers for Heirloom and Organic garden seeds. True Leaf Market offers a great selection of cover crop seeds, including their all purpose garden cover crop mix: their most popular cover crop seeds for home gardeners. Order Online at TrueLeafMarket.com, use promo code FOODHEALS10, and get $10 off your order of $50 or more. Organifi Organifi, is a line of organic superfood blends that offers plant based nutrition made with high quality ingredients. Organifi takes pride in offering the best tasting superfood products on the market at a price that works out to less than $3 a day. You can experience Organifi's high quality superfoods without breaking the bank. Go to www.organifi.com/foodheals and use code foodheals for 20% off. Just Thrive Health Probiotics  A Proven, Potent and Effective Spore Probiotic to Help You Be Your Healthier You. Guarantees survivability through the stomach & upper digestive system. Just Thrive's breakthrough, award-winning probiotic contains the proprietary strain, Bacillus Indicus HU36®, which produces antioxidants directly in the digestive system where they can be best absorbed by your body. Go to www.justthrivehealth.com, use the coupon code foodheals, get 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hii leo jaridani tunakuletea mada kwa kina ambapo katika makao makuu ya Umoja wa Mataifa mkutano wa 67 wa hali ya wanawake duniani, CSW67 ukiendelea maudhui yakiwa nafasi ya teknolojia na ugunduzi katika kumsongesha mwanamke tunapata mgeni studio ambaye ni John Nyirenda, kijana huyu, Muasisi na Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa shirika lisilo la kiserikali la kusongesha ustawi wa vijana nchini Malawi, YouthWAVE Malawi. Pia tunakuletea habari kwa ufupi za UNIDO, WHO na AFSD. Mashinani tutaelekea nchini Ethiopia, kulikoni?.Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la maendeleo ya viwanda duniani UNIDO kwa ushirikiano wa serikali ya Tanzania Jumatatu wamezindua kiwanda cha kutengeneza barakoa aina ya N95.Tukisalia na afya, shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la afya duniani WHO limesema mameya na maafisa wengine kutoka Zaidi ya miji 50 kote duniani wanakutana London Uingereza kuanzia leo Machi 14 hadi Machi 16 kushughilikia magonjwa yasio ya kuambukiza NCDs na kuzuia majeraha, katika mkutano wa kwanza wa ushirikiano kwa ajili ya miji yenye afya.Na jukwaa la mataifa la nchi za Kiarabu kwa ajili ya maendeleo endelevu AFSD na kusongesha ajenda ya mwaendeleo ya mwaka 2030, limeanza leo, mwaka huu likibeba mada “Suluhu na Hatua".Na mashinani tutasikia ujumbe kutoka wenyeji nchini Ethiopia kuhusu changamoto zinazowakumba sio tu wakimizi bali pia wenyeji hao.Mwenyeji wako ni Flora Nducha, karibu!

44% of all deaths in Rwanda are a result of non-communicable diseases or NCDs. These diseases, most of them 100% preventable, include diabetes, hypertension and cancers. How are they preventable? By reducing the amount of tobacco, alcohol and calorie-dense food we consume. And regular exercise of course. To discuss not only what is happening as a result of our refusal to change our habits, but what we can do to actually have a successful, and life changing, health journey, I am joined by Ivan Munye. Ivan is not only a personal trainer with a certification from the International Sports Science Association, he is the founder of FitPipo, a health and wellness management firm. Ivan also owns Cali Fitness, a popular Gaculiro-based gym. If you want to share your thoughts on the topics I discuss use the hashtag #LongFormRw on Twitter and follow us on Twitter and Instagram on our handle @TheLongFormRwBe a part of the conversation.

Korea24 – 2022.11.07 (Monday) News Briefing: President Yoon Suk Yeol has vowed to get to the bottom of what went wrong in the authorities' response to the Itaewon crowd crush tragedy. Meanwhile, police have opened investigations into six high-level officials on suspicions of gross negligence related to the incident. (Eunice Kim) In-Depth News Analysis: The World Health Organization (WHO) released its first-ever global status report on physical activity last month and it warned that nearly 500 million people worldwide will develop heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) between 2020 and 2030 due to a lack of physical activity, unless governments take urgent action. To talk more about the report, Dr. Rudiger Krech, the Director for Health Promotion at the WHO joins us via video. Korea Trending with Dianne Yoo: 1. A man accused of being the instigator of the Itaewon crowd crush tragedy has denied the allegations and is threatening legal action. (이태원 참사 '토끼 머리띠' 남성 "얼굴 공개한 사람들 다 고소”) 2. Two miners rescued from a collapsed mine in Bonghwa County after being trapped for nine days are quickly recovering, according to their families and doctors. (‘기적 생환’ 봉화 광부 수일 내 퇴원…오늘 합동 감식) 3. Twitter laid off 50% of its employees last Friday in response to a “massive drop in revenue”, according to its new owner, Elon Musk. (머스크, 트위터 인수 일주일만에 직원 절반 해고…유엔은 "인권 경영" 경고) Monday Sports Round-up: Sports journalist Yoo Jee-ho from the Yonhap News Agency joins us on the line for the latest on Son Heung-min’s facial injury, which is threatening his participation at the 2022 Qatar World Cup. He also updates us on the KBO Korea Series between the Kiwoom Heroes and SSG Landers tied at 2-2, and figure skater Kim Ye-lim’s silver at the ISU Grand Prix. Morning Edition Preview with Walter Lee: - Tomorrow’s Korea Herald features data which shows that the number of households in Seoul is set to decline from 2030. - In tomorrow’s Korea Times, Lee Gyu-lee reports on how over-the-top (OTT) services are seeking to diversify their business portfolios to compete with their competitors.

Videos: The Old World Order Is About To Collapse – Peter Zeihan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 514 (0:20 to 20:00) Tulsi Gabbard Speech LIVE | Tulsi Gabbard Accuses Joe Biden | US News Latest | English News LIVE Noam Chomsky – The Crimes of U.S. Presidents Clare Daly Latest Top 7 Contributions in the EU. (First 1 of 7 ) (start @ 0:17)   Carotenoids linked to lower diabetes Utrecht University Medical Center (Netherlands), October 21, 2022 A prospective study of 37,846 subjects links higher carotenoid consumption to a lower risk of diabetes. People who consume a diet high in antioxidant-rich carotenoids have a lower occurrence of diabetes, according to a new study. The researchers linked higher intakes of beta and alpha carotene with lower risks of type 2 diabetes. The research analyzed data from validated food frequency questionnaires from 37,846 participants in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, which followed subjects for a mean of 10 years. They focused on dietary carotenoid intake levels consisting of beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, beta-cryptoxanthin, lycopene, lutein, zeaxanthin and the total of these six carotenoids. The study also examined how smoking (tobacco, not carotenoids) played into the subjects' risk of developing diabetes. Thirty-one percent of the subjects smoked. “This study shows that diets high in beta-carotene and alpha-carotene are associated with reduced type 2 diabetes in generally healthy men and women,” concluded the authors of the study, which appeared in the journal Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Disease. Smoking, according the researchers' analysis, made no difference in the risk of diabetes. An earlier study linked low carotenoids with increased risk of colon cancer. Animal and human studies have found that beta-carotene can enhance many aspects of immunity. Some of this research has shown that beta-carotene boosts the activity of “natural-killer” cells, a type of immune cell that fights cancer. Melatonin and CoQ10 for migraines University of California, Los Angeles, October 20, 2022 Migraines affect about 12 percent of people in the United States, occurring more often in women, in people between the ages of 30 and 39, and within families. A retrospective analysis of migraine sufferers found that emotional stress was a trigger for 80 percent of them, missing a meal was a trigger for 57 percent, and lack of sleep was a trigger for 50 percent. In a study, patients who experienced migraine headaches two to eight times per month were randomly assigned to take either a placebo or 100 milligrams of CoQ10 three times per day for at least three months. The authors measured success as a greater than 50 percent reduction in the frequency of migraines. Only 14.4 percent of those who took the placebo showed this level of reduction, but 47.6 percent of those who took CoQ10 reduced their frequency of migraines by that amount. Then there's the B vitamin riboflavin. Another study found that 59 percent of people who took a daily dose of 400 milligrams had a greater than 50 percent reduction in the frequency of migraines, compared to 15 percent of those who took a placebo. However, it took three months for riboflavin to show this benefit. Knowing that sleep problems increase the risk of migraines, researchers compared the effects of 3 milligrams of melatonin to the effects of the anti-depressant amitriptyline or of a placebo. After three months, 54.4 percent of people who took melatonin had a 50 percent or greater reduction in frequency of headaches compared to 39.1 percent in the amitriptyline group and 20 percent in the placebo group. Study: Eating foods high in healthy fats helps fight off skin cancer University Medical Center Groningen (Netherlands), October 21, 2022 A study has found that foods rich in healthy fats can help protect against skin cancer and boost the effectiveness of immunotherapy among skin cancer patients. Results showed that patients who followed the Mediterranean diet and received the drugs were more likely to survive and remain progression-free after 12 months. The Mediterranean diet includes lots of superfoods like olive oil, nuts and fish, along with fruits, vegetables and whole grains. The diet is popular because it is associated with amazing health benefits such as a longer lifespan and protection against cardiovascular diseases. For the study, researchers from the U.K. and UMCG tracked the diets of 91 patients with advanced melanoma. The volunteers were all taking Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICIs). ICIs have worked well for those with melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer. Researchers analyzed the patients' progress and gave them frequent X-ray check ups. The findings revealed that the patients following a Mediterranean diet responded better to ICIs and were also most likely to not get any worse a year later. According to the results of the study, whole grains and legumes in particular also helped reduce the likelihood of patients experiencing side effects from the immunotherapy drugs kike colitis or inflammation of the colon. Meanwhile, those who consumed a lot of red and processed meat experienced more side effects. Exercise Matters Regardless of Genetics When it Comes to Longevity University of California San Diego, October 21, 2022 A study from the University of California San Diego found that engaging in physical activity contributed to your longevity, regardless of genetic predispositions. This study of over 5,400 postmenopausal women aged 63 and up examined the role fitness habits play in longevity. The findings? Even light activity makes a difference, correlating with a 45% reduced risk of death, compared with those leading a sedentary lifestyle. Meanwhile, moderate-to-vigorous activity was found to have an even greater impact, with a 54% reduced risk of death. These results were consistent among the women, regardless of any specific genetic predisposition. “Even if you aren't likely to live long based on your genes, you can still extend your lifespan by engaging in positive lifestyle behaviors such as regular exercise and sitting less,” concluded senior author and assistant professor at UC San Diego, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Ph.D. The UC San Diego study sought to answer the question of whether this risk changes if the person is genetically predisposed to live a long life. The conclusion is that no, it does not. Exercise increased the likelihood to live longer regardless of the subject's genetic profile, just as being sedentary increased their risk to die younger than would have otherwise been predicted based on their genes. When accounting for activity of the subjects and adjusting for variables like race, age, BMI, smoker vs. nonsmoker and overall health status the authors found: The highest quartile for light physical activity had a whopping 45% reduced risk of death compared to those in the lowest quartile The highest quartile of moderate-to vigorous activity category had a 54% reduced risk of death vs. the lowest The highest quartile for sedentary time doubled their risk of death compared to those with the lowest sedentary quartile This association of activity and longevity carried through even with the genetic risk score taken into account, confirming that the benefit of exercise on longevity was present, regardless of genetics. Shadyab emphasized the importance of these findings and physical activity's impact on living longer, stating, “Even if your genes predispose you to a long life, remaining physically active is still important to achieve longevity.” Pesticide Free Organic Food Lowers Blood Cancer Risk by 86% Centre of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics (France), October 22, 2022 Cutting out pesticides by eating only organic food could slash your cancer risk by up to 86 percent, a new study claims. The biggest impact was seen on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma risk, which plummeted among those who shunned chemical-sprayed food, according to the survey of nearly 70,000 French adults. Overall, organic eaters were 25 percent less likely to develop any cancer, and their risks of skin and breast cancers dropped by a third. The health benefit was far greater for obese people, they found. However, the diet had no significant effect on bowel cancer – which is soaring in numbers globally – or prostate cancer. ‘Our results indicate that higher organic food consumption is associated with a reduction in the risk of overall cancer,' lead author Dr Julia Baudry of the Centre of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics Sorbonne, Paris said. ‘We observed reduced risks for specific cancer sites – postmenopausal breast cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and all lymphomas – among individuals with a higher frequency of organic food consumption. Dr Baudry explained among the environmental risk factors for cancer there was growing evidence of a link between exposure to pesticides notably in farm workers and cancer development. ‘Because of their lower exposure to pesticide residues, it can be hypothesised that high organic food consumers may have a lower risk of developing cancer. The cohort, who were 78 percent female and an average age of 44 were broken up into four groups according their organic diet food scores. Factoring in known cancer risks, the proportion of participants in the top quartile for eating organic food who got certain cancers was a fraction compared to those in the bottom quartile. The most common was 459 breast cancers, followed by 180 prostate cancers, 135 skin cancers, 99 colorectal cancers, 47 non-Hodgkin lymphomas, and 15 other lymphomas. High organic food scores were inversely associated with the overall risk of cancer being 25 percent less for those of the top quartile compared to the bottom. WHO highlights high cost of physical inactivity in first-ever global report World Health Organization, October 21, 2022 Almost 500 million people will develop heart disease, obesity, diabetes or other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) attributable to physical inactivity, between 2020 and 2030, costing US$ 27 billion annually, if governments don't take urgent action to encourage more physical activity among their populations. The Global status report on physical activity 2022, published by the World Health Organization, measures the extent to which governments are implementing recommendations to increase physical activity across all ages and abilities. Data from 194 countries show that overall, progress is slow and that countries need to accelerate the development and implementation of policies to increase levels of physical activity and thereby prevent disease and reduce burden on already overwhelmed health care systems. Less than 50% of countries have a national physical activity policy, of which less than 40% are operational Only 30% of countries have national physical activity guidelines for all age groups While nearly all countries report a system for monitoring physical activity in adults, 75% of countries monitor physical activity among adolescents, and less than 30% monitor physical activity in children under 5 years In policy areas that could encourage active and sustainable transport, only just over 40% of countries have road design standards that make walking and cycling safer. The economic burden of physical inactivity is significant and the cost of treating new cases of preventable non-communicable diseases (NCDs) will reach nearly US$ 300 billion by 2030, around US$ 27 billion annually. The report calls for countries to prioritize physical activity as key to improving health and tackling NCDs, integrate physical activity into all relevant policies, and develop tools, guidance and training to improve implementation.

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Tune into the third episode in the Avalere Health Essential Voice podcast series focused on Agency decisions define patient access. In this segment, our experts continue the conversation around national coverage determinations (NCDs) by considering how potential policy and market catalysts 3 to 5 years out may help stakeholders think through opportunities and risks at key decision points ranging from early in development to implications for Part D.