Assessing national capacity for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases: report of the 2013 global survey

Overview

In 2013, WHO conducted the fourth NCD Disease Country Capacity Survey (NCD CCS) to review progress to date, identify possible gaps, highlight lessons learned, and recommend opportunities for improvement or replicability. This report offers an overview of the situation in relation to national capacity to address NCDs and the progress made since the last review conducted in 2010. It also proposes some additional areas, not included in previous monitoring activities but related to NCDs and their risk factors, where greater focus could also help achieve progress towards the 2025 target. The report reveals that while progress has been made at country level, there is still a way to go to create the infrastructure, policies, and capacity within health systems to respond to NCDs and their contributing risk factors if we are to defy predictions and successfully halt their advance.