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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTÉ REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE BUREAU RÉGIONAL DE L'EUROPE WELTGESUNDHEITSORGANISATION ВСЕМИРНАЯ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ ЗДРАВООХРАНЕНИЯ REGIONALBÜRO FÜR EUROPA ЕВРОПЕЙСКОЕ РЕГИОНАЛЬНОЕ БЮРО Expert meeting on noncommunicable disease prevention and control: learning from the arts Budapest, Hungary 26 October 2022 15-16 December 2022 Original: English Scope and purpose Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death and disability in the WHO European Region and pose major challenges for the development of societies. The rise of the prevalence of NCDs has been driven primarily by four major risk factors: tobacco use, physical inactivity, alcohol use and unhealthy diets. Implementing effective and preventive interventions tackling these shared behavioural risk factors are among the most effective interventions to keep people healthy and productive, and to reduce the individual, societal and economic impact and burden caused by NCDs. Many factors that affect our health and well-being are social, cultural, political, psychological or economic. Over the past two decades, there has been a major increase in research on the effect of the arts on health and well-being. Evidence indicates that art interventions can play a significant role in the prevention of ill health, promotion of health, and management and treatment of NCDs across the lifespan. Additionally, the arts can be an effective vehicle to deliver health messages; particularly for those who are the most difficult to reach. The need to integrate arts into the practices of the health-care sector and to create opportunities to extend art interventions across all member states of the WHO European Region are, therefore, paramount. The WHO Regional Office for Europe is, therefore, convening an expert meeting to understand the state of play and the potential role of the arts in NCD prevention and treatment both within the Region and globally. The meeting will enable a multidisciplinary platform for sharing existing country experience and best practice case studies which have the potential to influence NCDs. We will explore this topic further through the lens of behavioural and cultural insights – a flagship initiative of the WHO European Programme of Work, 2020–2025. The meeting will bring together a broad range of stakeholders from the arts, cultural institutions, health-care practitioners, academics, policy-makers and behavioural insight and digital health experts. The purpose of this expert meeting is to be inspired by multidisciplinary evidence-informed approaches, which can help us to support countries in attaining SDG 3.4: to reduce premature mortality from NCDs by one third by 2030. The objectives of the meeting are as follows. 1. Engage with both literature and evidence concerning how the arts can help to prevent, manage and control NCDs and discuss evidenced-informed practical interventions. Scope and purpose page 2 2. Demonstrate examples of how the arts, including the use of music specifically, have been used to communicate health promotion messages. 3. Develop partnerships between experts and decision-makers, as well as between different disciplines, to create a solid knowledge base for more sustainable and effective policies. 4. Discuss how behavioural and cultural insight interventions in partnership with the arts can best support public health officials and health-care practitioners to prevent and control NCDs. Key outcomes  Develop a networking group that seeks to reduce the prevalence of NCDs by tackling the main risk factors through the arts, and behavioural and cultural insight interventions.  Develop and disseminate to participants a catalogue of best-practice examples of arts interventions for NCD prevention, management and treatment.  Develop a summary report on the meeting outcomes, conclusions and next steps. Saatja: WHO NCD Office <[email protected]> Saadetud: 11.11.2022 13:09 Adressaat: Elen Ohov <[email protected]> Koopia: Triin Uusberg <[email protected]>; SM Info <[email protected]>; Ms K. Saarsalu-Layachi <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; KÖHLER, Kristina <[email protected]>; WICKRAMASINGHE, Kremlin <[email protected]>; PINEDO CARRILLO, Adriana Isabel <[email protected]>; CHATURVEDI, Anna <[email protected]> Teema: Nomination request: the Experts meeting on Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control: Learning from the Arts , 15-16 Dec 2022, Budapest, Hungary Dear Ms Ohov, Kindly receive the attached invitation to nominate one expert to participate in the Experts meeting on Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control: Learning from the Arts which will be held in Budapest, Hungary on 1516 December, attached you can find the nomination letter with details and Scope and Purpose of the meeting. May we suggest Mr Vootele Veldre, , on the grounds of his global expertise on this topic.. If you would prefer another representative, this should be a technical focal point within the Ministry of Social Affairs Looking forward to receiving the nomination Best regards Anna Chaturvedi (Mezentseva) Programme Assistant WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD Office)