About "Indicators for non-communicable diseases"
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Indicators for non-Communicable diseases forms part of Norway’s efforts to counter non-communicable diseases.
World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Global Action Plan
WHO’s global action plan for the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCD) for 2013-2020 aim to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), meaning cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic respiratory disease. This will be achieved through measures targeting risk factors such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol. See Table 1 below.
WHO defines nine global targets to be achieved by 2025 and 2030. The main target is a 33 per cent relative reduction in overall mortality from the four types of disease mentioned above. Then there are specific targets connected to mortality and morbidity, risk factors connected to behaviour, biology and national measures. Norway has accepted WHO’s targets, and this work is part of monitoring trends in Norway to ensure that we achieve those targets. WHO also defines 25 indicators to assess progress related to the NCD targets, risk factors, and measures that support the NCD targets.
The time period for evaluation of target achievement is 2010-2030.
| Tobacco use | Physical inactivity | Harmful use | Unhealthy diet |
Cancer (certain types) | x | x | x | x |
Cardiovascular disease | x | x | x | x |
Chronic respiratory disease | x |
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Diabetes (Type 2) | x | x |
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| x=causal risk factor. | ||||
National NCD indicator group
In 2016, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health was commissioned by the Ministry of Health and Care Services to collaborate with the Norwegian Directorate of Health on developing indicators for NCDs in connection with reporting on the global and national NCD strategy.
In response, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health established a National NCD Indicator Group. The group comprises representatives from: the Norwegian Directorate of Health, NTNU –Norwegian University of Science and Technology and HUNT – the Trøndelag Health Survey , UiT The Arctic University of Norway and The Tromsø Study, the University of Bergen (UiB), Haukeland University Hospital, the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
The group has identified data sources for the NCD indicators provided by WHO, as well as other relevant indicators for Norway and has quality assured and coordinated the data sources that cover each individual indicator. This work is summarised in the report Development of Indicators for NCDs in connection with Reporting on the Global and National NCD Strategy.
The indicators consist mainly of simple summarised statistics from registries and health surveys, thus enabling the Ministry of Health and Care Services to report on the different indicators both nationally and internationally.