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This Guidance Note provides DFID staff with an overview of how to ensure the needs of older persons and people with disabilities, including people with injuries and chronic diseases, are addressed in humanitarian response

"The NCD Alliance aims to put non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on the global agenda to address the NCD-crisis. Improving outcomes in morbidity and mortality by 2015 will clearly depend to a large extent on tackling the burden of NCDs, especially in developing countries"
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The Lancet, Vol 379, Issue 9829

These articles focus on the achievements of implementing non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factor surveillance in a number of Asian countries

Specific to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, this comprehensive resource aims to examine the poverty-disability relationship in transition countries. It explores the linkages between disability and employment, school enrolments, and the time-use of adults. This report also considers more broadly the nature of service delivery and the socio-economic implications for disabled people

This workshop report presents the proceedings from a three day lymphatic filariasis disability prevention workshop in Ghana. The workshop aimed to offer a knowledge exchange among disability prevention workers in lymphoedema management from Africa, Asia and the United States, and to provide an opportunity for exploring a more integrated public health approach to prevention of disability due to lymphatic filariasis and other chronic diseases affecting the lower limbs (i.e. diabetes, leprosy, Buruli ulcer). A CD-Rom with power point presentations accompanies this report
Lymphatic Filariasis Disability Prevention Workshop for Field Managers
Noguchi Institute, Ghana
10-12 July 2007

This is an analysis of the data collected in recent surveys of originator and generic medicines used to treat chronic diseases, and demonstrates that the price, availability and affordability are optimal for neither product types in most of the countries surveyed. The report is intended to be used by policy-makers and programme managers responsible for pricing, price regulation, procurement and other regulatory affairs related to chronic diseases, and can also be used for civil society groups wanting to advocate for pricing policies to make medicines more affordable and available

This report provides an overview of approaches for participatory community planning and enquiries regarding lymphatic filariasis following a workshop. The goal of this document is for health staff, program planners and program managers working for global elimination of lymphatic filariasis, to have an overview of the approaches for participatory community planning and enquiries. It provides guiding principles on methods that can be utilised and source of ideas for probe or explorations that can be made to comprehend the knowledge, attitudes and practices among the endemic communities towards lymphatic Filariasis ”Workshop on the orientation of participatory approaches on community enquiries regarding lymphatic filariasis
Orissa, India
12-16 April 2004

This paper is aimed at disabled people. It gives emergency tips for people with specific disabilities such as mobility disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, visual disabilities and others on what to do in the case of an emergency. Tips include preparing an emergency kit, making an evacuation plan, and writing down instructions to assist emergency workers. Although aimed at disabled people in the United States, the tips have some relevance to disabled people in the South

See also the article of the same name in World Health Forum Vol 18 No. 3/4 97 p245-260