PHM-Exch> [PHM NEWS} PMAC2019: Invitation to PMAC PHM side event: Addressing NCDs in the framework of PHC

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Linda Shuro <linda at phmovement.org>



*Addressing NCDs within the framework of PHC *

*Wednesday 30 January 2019 *



*14:00 - 17:30Lotus Suite 10**Invitation to join People's Health Movement
side event at PMAC2019 *



*Dear PMAC participant,*

This workshop will examine the drivers of NCDs in various settings,
especially in LMICs, as well explore the key strategies to strengthen
primary level and community-based PHC designed to address rise in NCDs and
strategies to address the broader determinants of NCDs, including those
related to the global trade regime, and the role of transnational
corporations. Lastly the workshop will discuss the role of government in
using regulation and other mechanisms to control NCDs. Sufficient time for
active engagement of the audience will be ensured by skilled facilitation.

*Presentations*

*Can the current emphasis in global PHC policy adequately address the NCD
epidemic? *
*Professor David Sanders* (School of Public Health, University of the
Western Cape, Global Co-Chair Peoples Health Movement)

*Improving food literacy in primary health care*
*Professor Carlos A. Monteiro* (Department of Nutrition, School of Public
Health, University of Sao Paulo)

*Trade agreements and NCDs*
*Dr Belinda Townsend* (Research Fellow in the School of Regulation and
Global Governance, Australian National University)

*Reducing Harmful Corporate Influences on NCDs: What role for public
health?*
*Professor Nicholas Freudenberg* (Distinguished Professor of Public
Health, School of Public Health and Hunter College, City University of New
York)

*Facilitation*
*Professor Fran Baum* (Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor, College of
Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University)

*Background*
As we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Alma Ata Declaration, it is
necessary to enrich the fundamental tenets of the Declaration in the light
of new challenges in health and healthcare that confront us. In 1978 the
major preoccupation for health systems related to control and elimination
of threats posed by communicable diseases. 40 years on, while communicable
diseases continue to pose challenges in many parts of the world,
non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are responsible for a major proportion of
burden of disease in most countries, including many low and middle income
countries.

There is a tendency to reason that control of NCDs require ‘high-tech’
solutions, best provided at secondary and tertiary levels of care. However,
experience shows that, as in the case of communicable diseases, the burden
of NCDs can be minimized by effective primary health care. To address NCDs
at the primary level of care it is necessary to incorporate specific
strategies, trained human resources (including community health workers),
and equipment and infrastructure, keeping in mind the necessity to promote
early detection of NCDs and disease prevention and health promotion
interventions.

Moreover the broader determinants of NCDs need attention within the
framework of the overall concept of PHC. A new economic order, as envisaged
in the Alma Ata declaration, needs to address the role played by the global
trade regime and that of TNCs in the food and beverages sector. This
broader concept of PHC also requires consideration of the role of
governments in regulating to ensure environments that substantially reduce
the risk of developing NCDs.




*If you have any questions - please contact the PHM global secretariat on
globalsecretariat at phmovement.org <globalsecretariat at phmovement.org>*

*People's Health Movement - PHM*

*PHM is a global network working with grassroots health activists, civil
society organizations and academic institutions in over 70 countries to
support local action for health equity and sustainable development *
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