Country reports are published on this page.

They include those from:

  • Joint programming missions;
  • NCD, mental health and tobacco control investment cases; 
  • Primary health care costing reports; and
  • Monitoring and evaluation activities.

 

 

Joint programming missions support UN Country Teams in their efforts to provide technical assistance to governments as they scale up comprehensive national NCD responses. These missions provide the opportunity for the UN System to engage with a range of government ministries and support them in adopting approaches to NCD policy development which involve all government departments. Joint programming missions also work with a range of development partners. These missions provide powerful advocate for ever stronger whole-of-government, whole-of-society, and whole-of-UN action.

Investment cases quantify: (i) the socioeconomic burden of NCDs and their risk factors as well as mental health conditions in the country; (ii) the costs of evidence-based interventions to prevent and to treat NCDs and mental health conditions; and (iii) the return on investment of these interventions. Investment case reports can also be accessed through the interactive platform on this page. The tobacco investment cases have been undertaken as part of the 2030 project, led by the Framework Convention Secretariat, with UNDP as a collaborating partner. 

Primary healthcare costing studies serve as a tool for policymakers, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders to promote primary healthcare as a an essential component of universal health coverage and the importance of preventing and controlling NCDs in primary care. They have been undertaken in six Gulf Cooperation Council countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates), where the studies have costed a package of eight primary healthcare programmes, including NCDs. 

 

Regional reports , journal articles and donor reports are also available.  








Donor Reports

 

Journal Articles

1. Economics of primary healthcare: cost estimation of clinical services at primary care facilities in the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council

Khalifa Elmusharaf, Sébastien Poix, Daniel Grafton, Johanna S Jung, Rebecca Gribble, Rachael Stanton, Lamia Mahmoud, Deena Hamza Al Asfoor, Tayba Alawadi, Mohammed Mustafa, Lulwa Shuwaiter, Mohammed S Alsuwaidan, Zahir Al-Abri, Sultana Al-Sabahi, Sherif Fadda, Hassan Raza Syed, Muneera Almutairi, Yahya M Al-Farsi, Nicholas Banatvala, Dudley Tarlton

 

2. Advancing progress on tobacco control in low-income and middle-income countries through economic analysis 

Roy Small, Rachel Nugent, Douglas Webb, Brian Hutchinson, Garrison Spencer, Carrie Ngongo, Roman Chestnov, Dudley Tarlton; Tobacco Control May 2024, 33 (Suppl 1) s3-s9; DOI: 10.1136/tc-2023-058335

3. Interpreting results, impacts and implications from WHO FCTC tobacco control investment cases in 21 low-income and middle-income countries

Nathan Mann, Garrison Spencer, Brian Hutchinson, Carrie Ngongo, Dudley Tarlton, Douglas Webb, Daniel Grafton, Rachel Nugent; Tobacco Control May 2024, 33 (Suppl 1) s17-s26; DOI: 10.1136/tc-2023-0583374

 

4. Equity implications of tobacco taxation: results from WHO FCTC investment cases

Garrison Spencer, Rachel Nugent, Nathan Mann, Brian Hutchinson, Carrie Ngongo, Dudley Tarlton, Roy Small, Douglas Webb; Tobacco Control May 2024, 33 (Suppl 1) s27-s33; DOI: 10.1136/tc-2023-0583384. 44

 

5. Evolving methodology of national tobacco control investment cases

Rachel Nugent, Brian Hutchinson, Nathan Mann, Carrie Ngongo, Garrison Spencer, Daniel Grafton, Roy Small; Tobacco Control May 2024, 33 (Suppl 1) s10-s16; DOI: 10.1136/tc-2023-058336

 

6. The reported impact of non-communicable disease investment cases in 13 countries 

Troisi G, Small R, Chestnov R, Andreasyan D, Khachatryan H, Phillips EA, Malcolm T, Kol H, Khodjaeva N, Gebremichael M, Tessema AW, Workneh AB, Davidson T,  Harris M, Ibraeva N, Nurmatova A, Altymysheva A, Go JJ, Kontsevaya A, Hanbunjerd K, Bunluesin S, Nieveras O, Ekinci B, Keskinkiliç B, Erguder T, Akiya OC, Kasule H, Nakanjako A, Shukurov S, Kasymova N, Banda P, Kakoma E, Bakyaita NN,  Kulikov A, Tarlton D, Putoud N, Chiossi S, Webb D, Banatvala N. BMJ Global Health 2024;9:e014784. 


7. Cross-country analysis of national mental health investment case studies in sub-Saharan Africa and Central, South and South-East Asia

Chisholm D, Lee YY, Baral PP, Bhagwat S, Dombrovskiy V, Grafton D, Kontsevaya A, Huque R, Kalani Okware K, Kulikov A, Marahatta K, Mavunganidze P, Omar N, Prasai D, Putoud N, Tsoyi E, Vergara J. Front. Health Serv. 2023 3:1214885.

 

8. The case for investing in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council: an economic evaluation

Elmusharaf K, Grafton D, Jung JS, Roberts E, Yahya Al-Farsi Y, Ameera Ali Al Nooh A, Buthaina Bin Belaila B, Amin ElShamy A, Hamoud Al-Zuabi H, Ateeq Al Mutawa K, Alraisi S, Al Lawat N, Gharbal A,Alomary S, Kulikov A, Pourghazian N, Slama S, Tarlton D, Banatvala N. BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e008670.

 

9. The case for investment in tobacco control: lessons from four countries in the Americas

Hutchinson B, Brispat F, Calderón Pinzón LV, Sarmiento A, Solís E, Nugent R, Mann N, Spencer G,  Ngongo C, Black A, Audera-Lopez MC, Ntiabang TA, Tarlton D, Cooke J, Small R, Roche M, Sandoval RC. Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2022;46:e174.

 

10. The investment case as a mechanism for addressing the NCD burden: Evaluating the NCD institutional context in Jamaica, and the return on investment of select interventions

Hutchinson B, Small R, Acquah K, Sandoval R, Nugent R, Belausteguigoitia DI, Banatvala N, Webb D, Tarlton D, Kulikov A, Prieto E, Santi K. PLoS ONE 2019. 14 (10): e0223412.