Samoa is one of the first countries in the Pacific to introduce taxation measures to address Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs). The predicted probability of dying from NCDs between the ages of 30 and 70...
The strategy and action plan provides programming guidance through a ten-step, strategic approach to plan, develop, implement, and evaluate SBCC campaigns and other activities, and to build on and continuously...
A ticking time bomb: at 83 percent, Tonga is facing some of the highest NCD-related death rates in the world. People in Tonga have adopted very unhealthy dietary behaviors. Fifty percent of Tongan households’...
This report provides the Government of Tonga and policy makers with a versatile tool to underpin evidence-based nutrition policy measures for improved population health and nutrition. Healthy populations...
Major risk factors for NCDs in Samoa include poor nutrition, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and physical inactivity. Addressing all of these risk behaviors requires multisectoral, multilevel action...
Samoa is one of the first countries in the Pacific to introduce taxation measures to address Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs). The predicted probability of dying from NCDs between the ages of 30 and 70...
This report focuses on the workshop which presented the findings and recommendations of the World Bank report, using taxation to address the rise of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) in Tonga. The workshop...
As part of the dissemination strategy of the evaluation report of Tonga’s NCD taxation policy, the government of Tonga and the World Bank team jointly conducted a series of community and stakeholder dissemination...
Tonga has experienced a high burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the past two decades. Data indicate the continuing rise of four major NCDs -cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer,and respiratory...