Final End-of-Biennium 2018-2019 and Strategic Plan 2014-2019 Assessment Report - Category 2: Noncommunicable Diseases and Risk Factors

During the 2018-2019 biennium, Member States of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) made significant progress toward control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors. Countries and territories improved their capacity to enact legislative and regulatory measures for NCD risk factors; to improve health system responses to NCDs, mental health, people with disabilities, and violence prevention; to complete national NCD surveys; and to disseminate key findings on the status of NCDs and risk factors and on road safety.