WHO - World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia

02/11/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 02/12/2024 21:43

WHO SEARO NCD dashboard: One stop shop for data on NCDs WHO South-East Asia Region

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), principally cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, impose a major and growing burden on health and development in the WHO South-East Asia Region. Data on NCD risk factors, morbidity and mortality, and the readiness and response of national systems depicting the status and the historical trends of the region and the regional countries support effective advocacy for NCD prevention and control and also are needed for monitoring and evaluation of national programmes.

In this backdrop the WHO Regional Office for South East Asia designed and implemented the WHO SEARO NCD dashboard SEARO NCD Dashboard (who.int)as a platform to readily access reliable comparable data on different aspects of NCDs in the Region and countries.

The Regional office conceptualized the DSEARO NCD dashboard with a technical agency to create the visualizations of NCD data of five main categories, namely, probability of premature mortality due to NCDs, risk factors for NCDs, diseases and conditions, NCD progress monitor indictors and country data portals for national NCD surveys. The visualizations include historical trends of indicators for males and females for the Region and countries with information with provisions to elicit on exact values. The projected lines up to 2030 are also worked out using a regression technique for indicators depicting SDG targets.

The source of data used is Global Health Observatory of the WHO (https://www.who.int/data/gho) which represent the best estimates of WHO in 2022 allowing comparability across countries and time.

The results of the NCD Progress Monitor of 2019 and 2021 which tracks the national implementation of a set of key tracer interventions are also depicted and the dashboard also is the home to Country Data Portals of STEPs surveys of three countries in the region.

Following its launch in August 2023, SEARO conducted a public webinar to introduce the Dashboard and to promote its use.

The WHO SEARO NCD dashboard offers a dynamic, interactive and responsive tool where the users are able to access information on different aspects of NCDs for the Region as well as for the 11 Member States using data are from published sources.