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Gauden Galea

Strategic Advisor, NCDs and Innovation, WHO/Europe
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Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis

…, T Collins, S Ebrahim, M Engelgau, G Galea… - The lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
The UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in September, 2011,
is an unprecedented opportunity to create a sustained global movement against premature …

Preventing chronic diseases: taking stepwise action

JAE Epping-Jordan, G Galea, C Tukuitonga… - The Lancet, 2005 - thelancet.com
The scientific knowledge to achieve a new global goal for the prevention of chronic diseases—a
2% yearly reduction in rates of death from chronic disease over and above projected …

Scaling up interventions for chronic disease prevention: the evidence

TA Gaziano, G Galea, KS Reddy - The Lancet, 2007 - thelancet.com
Interventions to prevent morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases need to be cost effective
and financially feasible in countries of low or middle income before recommendations for …

Unhealthy diets, obesity and time discounting: a systematic literature review and network analysis

P Barlow, A Reeves, M McKee, G Galea… - Obesity …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
There is an increasing policy commitment to address the avoidable burdens of unhealthy diet,
overweight and obesity. However, to design effective policies, it is important to understand …

[BOOK][B] European report on preventing child maltreatment

D Sethi, M Bellis, K Hughes, R Gilbert, F Mitis, G Galea - 2013 - apps.who.int
Child maltreatment is a leading cause of health inequality, with the socioeconomically
disadvantaged more at risk. It worsens inequity and perpetuates social injustice because of its far-…

Relationship of soft drink consumption to global overweight, obesity, and diabetes: a cross-national analysis of 75 countries

S Basu, M McKee, G Galea… - American journal of …, 2013 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We estimated the relationship between soft drink consumption and obesity and
diabetes worldwide. Methods. We used multivariate linear regression to estimate the …

[BOOK][B] Alcohol in the European Union: consumption, harm and policy approaches

P Anderson, L Møller, G Galea - 2012 - apps.who.int
Alcohol is one of the world’s top three priority areas in public health. Even though only half
the global population drinks alcohol, it is the world’s third leading cause of ill health and …

[HTML][HTML] European Code against Cancer 4th Edition: 12 ways to reduce your cancer risk

…, F Belardelli, D Bettcher, F Cavalli, G Galea… - Cancer …, 2015 - Elsevier
This overview describes the principles of the 4th edition of the European Code against Cancer
and provides an introduction to the 12 recommendations to reduce cancer risk. Among …

[BOOK][B] Prisons and health

S Enggist, L Møller, G Galea, C Udesen - 2014 - apps.who.int
This book outlines important suggestions by international experts to improve the health of
those in prison and to reduce both the health risks and risks to society of imprisonment. In …

The future burden of obesity-related diseases in the 53 WHO European-Region countries and the impact of effective interventions: a modelling study

…, T Marsh, K McPherson, M Brown, G Galea… - BMJ open, 2014 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the biggest cause of death in Europe
putting an unsustainable burden on already struggling health systems. Increases in obesity are …