Country-Level Decision Making for Control of Chronic Diseases Workshop Summary (2012) / Chapter Skim
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However, despite these challenges, a recent Institute of Medicine report, Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World (2010) , concluded that not only is it possible to reduce the burden of cardiovascular and related chronic diseases in developing countries but such a reduction will be critical to achieving global health and development goals.
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The workshop's primary goal, planning committee chair Rachel Nugent explained in her introductory remarks, was to identify what tools could serve to support country-led planning for effective, efficient, and equitable chronic disease control programs. As Nugent noted, the 2010 report offered a model of the decisionmaking and planning process (Figure 1-1)
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• Intermediate outcomes • Health impact FIGURE 1-1 Measurement-based decision making cycle.
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The workshop included two main groups of presentations. In the first, representatives from six economically, demographically, and geographically diverse countries described their experiences, progress, and lessons learned in planning and implementing chronic disease control efforts at the country level, including the availability and gaps in useful, country-level data.
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The final chapter draws together themes from the presentations and discussions throughout the workshop, focusing on the considerations that could be most useful in the development and implementation of a toolkit to support country-level planning for control of chronic diseases.
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