Here are the seven recommendations from the report [ https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240123977 ]:
Recommendation 1: Embed cancer control within health system strengthening and UHC using NCCPs as the catalyst for strategic action
Vision: Cancer control is fully integrated into national health systems through institutionalized planning and linked to sustainable financing.
Recommendation 2: Strengthen health system capacities for comprehensive, integrated cancer service delivery
Vision: Every cancer intervention is built on strong foundations of sustainable financing, high-quality care, reliable access to innovative technologies and trained health workforce.
Recommendation 3: Include people with lived experience in all cancer-related decision-making Vision: People affected by cancer – those diagnosed, survivors, caregivers and families – are recognized as essential partners and rights-holders who shape cancer policy,
planning, service design and quality improvement at every level.
Vision: People affected by cancer – those diagnosed, survivors, caregivers and families – are recognized as essential partners and rights-holders who shape cancer policy, planning, service design and quality improvement at every level.
Recommendation 4: Enhance community-level health promotion on cancer and strengthen social protections Vision: Communities across all literacy levels, cultures and geographies possess the knowledge, confidence and skills to prevent cancer, recognize early symptoms, seek timely care and navigate health systems effectively.
Vision: Communities across all literacy levels, cultures and geographies possess the knowledge, confidence and skills to prevent cancer, recognize early symptoms, seek timely care and navigate health systems effectively.
Recommendation 5: Promote alignment and transparency in global cancer data Vision: Countries and stakeholders have access to robust, transparent and coherent cancer data aligned across global initiatives, that are routinely used to guide decisions and accountability. Uncertainty is communicated clearly.
Vision: Countries and stakeholders have access to robust, transparent and coherent cancer data aligned across global initiatives, that are routinely used to guide decisions and accountability. Uncertainty is communicated clearly.
Recommendation 6: Unify the cancer agenda around equity-based, system-wide solutions
Vision: The global and national cancer agenda is driven by common priorities and shared platforms, so that every investment strengthens systems that benefit people with all types of cancer.
Recommendation 7: Align research and innovation with public health priorities and the service needs of LMICs Vision: Global cancer research and innovation reflect the needs and realities of LMICs, using endpoints of meaning for affected populations and payers, matched by investments that allow effective interventions to be adopted, scaled and sustained.
Vision: Global cancer research and innovation reflect the needs and realities of LMICs, using endpoints of meaning for affected populations and payers, matched by investments that allow effective interventions to be adopted, scaled and sustained.
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COMMENT (NPW): Recommendation 4 is firmly aligned with the HIFA vision: to build a world where every person and every healthcare worker has access to the reliable healthcare information they need to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.
In my next message I shall reproduce the report's 15 actions to achieve the stated vision of Recommendation 4: 'Communities across all literacy levels, cultures and geographies possess the knowledge, confidence and skills to prevent cancer, recognize early symptoms, seek timely care and navigate health systems effectively.'
Best wishes, Neil
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org