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(d) Explore the provision of adequate, predictable and sustained resources,
through domestic, bilateral, regional and multilateral channels, including traditional
and voluntary innovative financing mechanisms;
(e) Pursue and promote gender-based approaches for the prevention and
control of non-communicable diseases founded on data disaggregated by sex and
age in an effort to address the critical differences in the risks of morbidity and
mortality from non-communicable diseases for women and men;
(f) Promote multisectoral and multi-stakeholder engagement in order to
reverse, stop and decrease the rising trends of obesity in child, youth and adult
populations, respectively;
(g) Recognize where health disparities exist between indigenous peoples and
non-indigenous populations in the incidence of non-communicable diseases and
their common risk factors, and that these disparities are often linked to historical,
economic and social factors, and encourage the involvement of indigenous peoples
and communities in the development, implementation and evaluation of
non-communicable disease prevention and control policies, plans and programmes,
where appropriate, while promoting the development and strengthening of
capacities at various levels and recognizing the cultural heritage and traditional
knowledge of indigenous peoples and respecting, preserving and promoting, as
appropriate, their traditional medicine, including conservation of their vital
medicinal plants, animals and minerals;
(h) Recognize further the potential and contribution of traditional and local
knowledge, and in this regard respect and preserve, in accordance with national
capacities, priorities, relevant legislation and circumstances, the knowledge and safe
and effective use of traditional medicine, treatments and practices, appropriately
based on the circumstances in each country;
(i) Pursue all necessary efforts to strengthen nationally driven, sustainable,
cost-effective and comprehensive responses in all sectors for the prevention of
non-communicable diseases, with the full and active participation of people living
with these diseases, civil society and the private sector, where appropriate;
(j) Promote the production, training and retention of health workers with a
view to facilitating adequate deployment of a skilled health workforce within
countries and regions, in accordance with the World Health Organization Global
Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel; 10
(k) Strengthen, as appropriate, information systems for health planning and
management, including through the collection, disaggregation, analysis,
interpretation and dissemination of data and the development of population-based
national registries and surveys, where appropriate, to facilitate appropriate and
timely interventions for the entire population;
(l) According to national priorities, give greater priority to surveillance,
early detection, screening, diagnosis and treatment of non-communicable diseases
and prevention and control, and to improving accessibility to safe, affordable,
effective and quality medicines and technologies to diagnose and to treat them;
provide sustainable access to medicines and technologies, including through the
development and use of evidence-based guidelines for the treatment of
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See World Health Organization, Sixty-third World Health Assembly, Geneva, 17–21 May 2010,
Resolutions and Decisions, Annexes (WHA63/2010/REC/1), annex 5.
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