Table 1 Global Responses and Progress in 2003
From: The Unite for Diabetes campaign: Overcoming constraints to find a global policy solution
Global Response | Progress in 2003 | Example |
|---|---|---|
Global advocacy | "What there is tends to be fragmented and risk-factor or disease specific" | |
Partnerships and interactions | "If widely implemented, changes [especially in food industry] could harness the benefits of globalization and promote health" | WHO Strategy for Diet and Physical Activity, some progress with food (Kraft) and alcohol industry |
Capacity and resources | "national capacity for non-communicable disease prevention and control is weak and the institutional response to capacity development has not kept pace with epidemiological transition" | NIH and Fogarty International Center |
Global norms and standards | "increasing need to establish global norms...treaties are not the solution to the complex issues related to nutrition transition or physical inactivity. Multistakeholder and intergovernmental mechanisms and other non-binding measures are better options, especially in relation to children" | FCTC |
Reorientation of health services | Prevention, treatment and palliative care not implemented in most countries; focus on acute care |