The Epidemiological Context of Noncommunicable Diseases dashboard allows users to examine data on mortality from noncommunicable diseases and evidence on care related to diabetes, cancer, respiratory, and cardiovascular diseases. In addition, it is possible to analyze evidence on healthy lifestyle indicators. The indicators grouped into these categories have been structured to enable comparisons between countries, monitor progress toward the strategic objectives set for the region, and analysis of the profile of each country, sub-region, and the Americas as a whole. In this way, it is possible to get evidence regarding the different levels of progress across the region, aiming to mitigate the impact of the challenge posed by chronic diseases.
The first set of monitoring panels is organized into three subsections:
- Cross-country comparison,
- Tracking progress and
- Location profile.
The cross-country comparison section provides comparative evidence between the different countries and sub-regions of the Americas. It is also possible to follow the trends associated with each indicator, along with their respective geographical and gender breakdowns, and download the data used in the visualizations. In the tracking progress section, projection analyses are showing the trends observed by the selected indicators, as well as how each country and sub-region of the Americas is evolving toward the strategic objectives defined for tackling chronic non-communicable diseases. The location profile section provides an overview, aggregated by geography, of all the indicators considered in this monitoring effort so that comparisons can be made between the different groups of diseases considered as priorities. This body of evidence presented here provides crucial data to enable the debate of strategies and the definition of prioritization criteria for the promotion of interventions capable of mitigating the deleterious effects of the high burden of chronic diseases present in the populations of the Americas.