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Planning and Management of Cross-Sectoral Programs: Strategies to Address NCDs

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This chapter intends to describe, analyze, and recommend approaches and technologies to improve the response to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and risk factors, based on past experiences and new challenges especially for developing countries. The recommendations include key issues to design, implement, and evaluate population-based interventions addressing chronic NCDs, responding to questions such as the following: Why interventions addressing NCDs have not produced the expected results, especially in developing countries? What strategies and tools have contributed to the successful planning and implementation of effective interventions?

The answer to the above questions is built by addressing the following aspects: meaning and practice of the concept “health as a social and political process”; population approach interventions, which include the territory where people live; wider scope of NCD interventions, clearly addressing equity and social determinants of health; comprehensive and integrated approaches, health care oriented—not only to health service provision, monitoring, surveillance, and evaluation research—linked to decision-taking processes and practice; long-term capacity building processes, which are supported for the healthy settings strategy; NCDs as entry point to develop capacity and resilience for local development; and alliances for planning, management, and maintaining intersectoral work. Finally the contribution of the surveillance system is approached as well as information to develop evidences on impact and effectiveness of interventions to respond to the NCDs; for it, it is considered that the evidences in public health are something more than data and information; they become motor and anchorage of sustained processes of development in order to improve the health and life quality of populations.

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de Salazar, L. (2013). Planning and Management of Cross-Sectoral Programs: Strategies to Address NCDs. In: McQueen, D. (eds) Global Handbook on Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7594-1_14

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