The Lancet Global Health: Half of WHO-recommended policies to reduce chronic diseases are not put into practice

(The Lancet) The first analysis of WHO-recommended policies to prevent and control non-communicable diseases (NCDs) finds that implementation is slowly improving, but on average just over half get no further than being endorsed, according to results from 151 countries published in The Lancet Global Health journal. The current study is the first to analyse what progress was made in putting 18 policies into practice worldwide between 2015 and 2017.