Presentations delivered by Gauden Galea (Director, NCD and Promoting Health through the Lifecourse, at WHO Regional Office for Europe) - High-level meeting on refugee and migrant health (23-24 November 2015, Rome, Italy)

2. Noncommunicable
Conditions
Gauden Galea
Director, NCD and Promoting Health through the Lifecourse
WHO Regional Office for Europe

5. http://www.helpage.org/

6. Problems for Older Migrants
• Chronic noncommunicable diseases
– Gaps in treatment continuity, higher risk of complications
– No treatment for chronic diseases in emergency kits
• Mental Health
– Depression, withdrawal, apathy, disorientation, confusion,
and memory loss
– Reluctance to leave home; relocation adjustment problems
– Anxiety with unfamiliar surroundings

8. Core interventions
• Tobacco cessation
• Promotion of healthy diet/ physical
activity
• Diabetes
• Cardiovascular risk
• Secondary prevention of heart
attacks and strokes
• Asthma/Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease
• Early detection of cancer
• Cancer pain relief
• Rheumatic heart disease Photo: Mstyslav Chernov, Wikimedia Commons

9. P.E.N. provides
• Evidence-based protocols for essential
NCD interventions in PHC
• Core list of low-cost, essential
technologies and medicines
• Tools for cardiovascular risk prediction
• Tools for self-care
• Model suitable for maintaining continuity
of care
• Interventions for physicians and non-
physicians
• A tool for prioritizing interventions
"LE Eithne Operation Triton" by Irish Defence Forces
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10. THANK YOU