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Reports

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The SDGs and the UN Summit of the Future. Sustainable Development Report 2024 (SDSN 2024)

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Tracking NCD Funding Flows – Urgent Calls and Global Solutions (NCDA 2024)

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Health Financing Challenges and Opportunities for Integrating Noncommunicable Diseases into Global Health and Development Priorities (NCD Alliance 2024)

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Regional Action Framework on Communication for Health- A vision for using communication to improve public health in the Western Pacific Region (WHO 2024)

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Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2024_Financing for Development at a Crossroads (UN 2024)

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Compendium Report on Multisectoral Actions for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Conditions -Country Case Studies (WHO 2024)

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Financing Solutions for NCDs and Mental Health. Policy Brief (NCD Alliance 2024)

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Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health in Small Island Developing States (WHO 2023)

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Integrating Health Financing to Achieve UHC and NCD SDG Targets (NCD Alliance 2023)

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Global Mapping Report on Multisectoral Actions to Strengthen the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Conditions: Experiences From Around the World (WHO 2023)

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Health at a Glance 2023- OECD Indicators (OECD 2023)

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Health for All – Transforming Economies to Deliver What Matters (WHO 2023)

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The Philippines National NCD Investment (NCD Alliance 2023)

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Global Report on the Use of Alcohol Taxes, 2023 (WHO 2023)

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Global Report on the Use of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes (WHO 2023)

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WHO Technical Manual on Alcohol Tax Policy and Administration (WHO 2023)

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Web Annex. Summary of Country Experiences. In Global Mapping Report on Multisectoral Actions to Strengthen the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Conditions- Experiences from Around the World (WHO 2023)

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Times of Crisis, Times of Change- Science for Accelerating Transformations to Sustainable Development (United Nations 2023)

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Noncommunicable Diseases A Compendium (Routledge 2023)

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Assessing National Capacity for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases-Report of the 2021 Global Survey (WHO 2023)

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2023 Global Progress Report on Implementation of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products (WHO 2023)

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2023 Global Progress on Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO 2023)

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Policy Brief-Invest to Protect NCD Financing as the Foundation for Healthy Societies and Economies (NCD Alliance 2022)

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Implementing the SDG Stimulus. Sustainable Development Report 2023 (Dublin University Press, Ireland 2023)

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What Worked? What Didn’t? What’s Next? 2023 Progress Report on the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (WHO 2023)

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WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2023: Protect People from Tobacco Smoke (WHO 2023)

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World Health Statistics 2023: Monitoring Health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals (WHO 2023)

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Health at a Glance-Asia:Pacific 2022-Measuring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage (OECD:WHO 2022)

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World No Tobacco Day 2023 Grow Food, Not Tobacco (WHO 2023)

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Global Spending on Health: Rising to the Pandemic’s Challenges (WHO 2022)

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Integration of WHO FCTC Implementation with the Control and Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases (WHO 2023)

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World Health Statistics 2022 Monitoring Health for the SDGs Sustainable Development Goals (WHO 2022)

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Noncommunicable Diseases Progress Monitor 2022 (WHO 2022)

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Invisible Numbers The True Extent of Noncommunicable Diseases and What To Do About Them (WHO 2022)

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Health Taxes Policy and Practice (WHO 2022)

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Health At A Glance Asia Pacific 2022 Measuring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage (OECD 2022)

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Atlas of African Health Statistics 2022 Health Situation Analysis of the WHO African Region (WHO 2022)

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Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report 2022 (United Nations 2022)

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WHO Manual on Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation Policies to Promote Healthy Diets (WHO 2022)

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Global Dialogue on Partnerships for Sustainable Financing of NCD Prevention Control. Meeting Report (WHO 2019)

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Financing for Sustainable Development Report (UN 2022)

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Invest to Protect NCD Financing as the Foundation for Healthy Societies and Economies. Policy Brief (NCD Alliance 2022)

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Health at A Glance 2021: OECD Indicators (OECD 2021)

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Global Expenditure on Health: Public Spending on the Rise? (WHO 2021)

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WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2021: Addressing New and Emerging Products (WHO 2021)

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WHO Technical Manual on Tobacco Tax Policy and Administration (2021)

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Saving Lives Spending Less The Case for Investing In Noncommunicable Diseases (WHO 2021)

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Assessing Country Health Financing Systems: The Health Financing Progress Matrix (WHO 2020)

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The health financing progress matrix- country assessment guide (WHO 2020)

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For the Future Towards the Healthiest and Safest Region A vision for WHO work with Member States and Partners in the Western Pacific (WHO 2020)

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Health Taxes: A Primer Policy Brief (WHO 2019)

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Global Spending on Health: A World in Transition (WHO 2019)

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Global Strategy to Accelerate Tobacco Control: Advancing Sustainable Development Through the Implementation of the WHO FCTC 2019-2025 (WHO 2019)

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Health Taxes to Save Lives: Employing Effective Excise Taxes on Tobacco, Alcohol, and Sugary Beverages (The Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health 2019)

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Global Dialogue on Partnerships for Sustainable Financing of NCD Prevention Control. Meeting Report (WHO 2019)

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Financing Gap to Implement Demand Reducing Tobacco Control Strategies in WHO FCTC Countries (FCA 2018)

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Saving Lives, Spending Less: A Strategic Response to Noncommunicable Diseases (WHO 2018)

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Resource Tool on Alcohol Taxation and Pricing Policies (WHO 2017)

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Tobacco Tax Reform at the Crossroads of Health and Development: A Multisectoral Perspective (2017)

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Tackling NCDs: Best Buys’ and Other Recommended Interventions for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (WHO 2017)

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Earmarking for Health: From Theory to Practice (Health Financing Working Paper No.5) (WHO 2017)

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The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control (NIH & WHO 2016)

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Earmarked Tobacco Taxes: Lessons Learnt from Nine Countries (WHO 2016)

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Tobacco Control Fund as Catalyst for Public Health Gain: Vietnam’s Experience (SEATCA 2014)

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Social Return on Investment (SROI): Selected Cases from Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth 2014)

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The Birth of the ThaiHealth Fund (ThaiHealth 2013)

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Financial Resources for Implementation of Tobacco Control Measures: Potential of Innovative Financing (South Centre 2013)

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Health Promotion Fund: Sustainable Financing and Governance (ThaiHealth & SEATCA 2013)

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Ten-Year Review of Thai Health Promotion Foundation 2001-2011 (ThaiHealth 2012)

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Scaling Up Action Against Noncommunication Diseases: How Much Will It Costs? (WHO 2011)

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Lessons Learned in Establishing a Health Promotion Fund (SEATCA 2011)

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Innovative Financing from Tobacco Taxation for Health Promotion (SEARO 2011)

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Health Systems Financing: The Path to Universal Coverage (WHO 2010)

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Monitoring the Building Block of Health Systems: A Handbook of Indicators and Their Measurement Strategies (WHO 2010)

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How Eliminating the Global Illicit Cigarette Trade Would Increase Tax Revenue and Save Lives (The Union 2009)

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Financing Health Promotion: Discussion Paper (WHO 2007)

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Globalization and Health Promotion (Springer, New York 2007)

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The Establishment and Use of Dedicated Taxes for Health (WPRO 2004)

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Health Financing: Designing and Implementing Pro-Poor Policies (HSRC 2001)

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A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians (Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1980)

Investment Cases – Country-specific Reports

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The Case for Investing in WHO FCTC Implementation in Georgia (UNDP 2018)

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The Case for Investing in WHO FCTC Implementation in Georgia (UNDP 2018)-Infographic

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Investment Case for Tobacco Control in Myanmar (UNDP 2018)

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Investment Case for Tobacco Control in Myanmar (UNDP 2018)-Infographic

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Investment Case for Tobacco Control in Sri Lanka (UNDP 2019)

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Investment Case for Tobacco Control in Sri Lanka (UNDP 2019)-Infographic

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Investment Case for Tobacco Control in LAO PDR (UNDP 2022)

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Investment Case for Tobacco Control in LAO PDR (UNDP 2022)-Policy Brief

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Investment Case for Tobacco Control in LAO PDR (UNDP 2022)-Infographic

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Investment Case for Tobacco Control in Cambodia (UNDP 2019)

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Investment Case for Tobacco Control in Cambodia (UNDP 2019)-infographic

Healthcare Costs and Burdens (Tobacco and NCDs)

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The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control (NIH 2016)

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The Lancet-Latest global disease estimates reveal perfect storm of rising chronic diseases and public health failures fuelling COVID-19 pandemic: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

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Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019

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Global economic cost of smoking-attributable diseases – Supplementary material (Tobacco Control 2018)

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Global economic cost of smoking-attributable diseases – Supplementary material (Tobacco Control 2018)

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Global economic cost and health burden of tobacco use – Diagram

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Direct and indirect tobacco-related health care costs in ASEAN

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WHO FCTC – Investment Cases

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Global Burden of Disease (GBD)

Research Paper

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Tying Health Taxes to Health Promotion Is Popular and Effective in Thailand (BMJ 2024)

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Taxation of Tobacco, Alcohol, and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages- Reviewing the Evidence and Dispelling the Myths (BMJ 2023)

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Assessing the Solutions to Tobacco Control’s Funding Gap Problem (BMJ 2022)

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Sin Taxes and Their Effect on Consumption, Revenue Generation and Health Improvement: A Systematic Literature Review in Latin America (Health Policy and Planning 2021)

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WHO Discussion Paper Development of an Implementation Roadmap 2023–2030 for the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs (WHO 2021)

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Tracking Development Assistance for Health and for COVID-19: A Review of Development Assistance, Government, Out-of-pocket, and Other Private Spending on Health for 204 Countries and Territories 1990–2050 (The Lancet 2021)

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Impact of Tax Increases on Illicit Cigarette Trade in Mongolia (BMJ 2020)

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Trends In Global Health Financing (BMJ 2019)

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Coordinating Health Promotion in a Federal State Over the Course of 30 years- A Case Report from Switzerland (Health Promotion Perspectives 2019)

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Lessons from the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2019)

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Sustainable Financing of Health Promotion Services In Selected Countries: Best Experience for Developing Countries (Med J Islam Repub Iran 2019)

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Global Economic Cost of Smoking-Attributable Diseases (Tobacco Control 2018)

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The Use of Tobacco Tax Revenues to Fund the Guam Cancer Registry: A Double Win for Cancer Control (J Cancer Policy 2017)

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Analysis of Health Promotion and Prevention Financing Mechanisms in Thailand (HPI 2016)

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How Thailand’s Greater Convergence Created Sustainable Funding for Emerging Health Priorities Caused by Globalization (Global Health Action 2015)

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Thai Health Promotion Foundation: Innovative Enabler for Health Promotion (World Health & Population 2015)

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Innovate, Inform, Integrate- VicHealth is Transforming to Meet Innovation and the New Health Promotion Challenges (Health Promotion International 2015)

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Social Return on Investment: Health Promotion Programs (TDRI 2014)

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Funding Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Programmes: An Innovative Financing Experience from Thailand (WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health 2012)

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Securing Funds for Health Promotion: Lessons from Health Promotion Foundations Based on Experiences from Austria, Australia, Germany, Hungary, and Switzerland (HPI 2011)

International Guiding Principles

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Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2015)

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Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (2015)

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Guidelines for implementation of Article 6: Price and tax measures to reduce the demand for tobacco (2014)

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Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (2011)

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Resolutions and Decisions: Fifty-Eighth World Health Assembly (2005)

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World Health Assembly Resolutions and Decisions: Sustainable health financing, universal coverage and social health insurance (2005)

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WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2005)

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Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, 1986 (World Health, 1987)

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Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, 1986 (WHO)

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Declaration of Alma-Ata (1978)

Laws / Regulations

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Austria Health Promotion Act 1998 (Gesundheitsförderungsgesetz – GfG, 1998

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Healthway Tobacco Control Act 1990

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Lao PDR Decree on Tobacco Control Fund 2013

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Lao PDR Law on Tobacco Control 2009

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Mongolia Law on Government Special fund 2019

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Mongolia Law on Tobacco Control 2005 (English)

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Mongolia Law on Tobacco Control 2005

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Singapore Health Promotion Board Act 2001

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Tonga Health Promotion Foundation Act 2007

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Thailand Health Promotion Foundation Act B.E. 2544 (2001)

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Taiwan Organization Act of the Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare (ENG)

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Taiwan Organization Act of the Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare

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Vietnam Prime Minister Decision on the establishment and approval of the regulations for organization and operation of the fund for prevention and control of tobacco harms 2013

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VicHealth Tobacco Act 1987

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Vietnam Law on Prevention and Control of Tobacco Harms 2012

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Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation Act 2016