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09/09/22 05:40 AM IST

South-East Asian region needs to accelerate efforts for prevention of non-communicable diseases

In News 
  • In order to achieve global, regional, and national goals for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, the South-East Asian region needs to accelerate efforts.
Two Plans 
  • The Member countries endorsed the implementation roadmap for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in South-East Asia 2022-2030, two action plans, for oral health in South-East Asia 2022-2030.
  • And the action plan for integrated people-centred eye care in South-East Asia 2022-2030 during the ongoing seventy-fifth regional committee session.
  • The regional NCD implementation roadmap 2022-2030 provides strategic directions to accelerate the national NCD response through the primary health care and universal health coverage routes to improve access, coverage and quality of NCD prevention and control interventions for the achievement of the 2025 and 2030 NCD targets.
Oral disease
  • Oral diseases are among the most common NCDs in the South-East Asian Region, with cases of untreated dental caries, severe periodontal diseases and edentulism estimated to be more than 900 million in 2019.
  • The South-East Asia Region has the highest oral cancer incidence and mortality rates among all WHO regions.
  • The disease burden also shows strong inequalities with higher prevalence and severity in poor and disadvantaged populations.
  • The Action Plan for oral health in South-East Asia 2022-2030 provides guidance to member countries to develop impactful national actions to improve oral health through aligned approaches within the ambit of universal health coverage.
Regional Action Plan 
  • The Regional Action Plan for integrated people-centred eye care in South-East Asia 2022-2030 aims to provide ‘equitable access to high-quality, comprehensive eye health services to achieve universal eye health by 2030’ and accelerate progress towards achieving the global targets of refractive error and cataract surgery and two Regional targets for diabetic retinopathy and trachoma elimination.
Reason 
  • Non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes, account for almost two-thirds of all deaths in the WHO South-East Asian Region. Nearly half of these deaths occurred prematurely between the ages of 30 and 69 years in 2021.
Source- Indian Express 

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