CINDI - Collaboration for Integrated Non-communicable Disease Intervention.
The mission of the CINDI Association is the establishment of networks between people, organizations, and governments for the exchange of experiences related to the integrative treatment of chronic, non-communicable diseases
The goals of CINDI association are as following:
a) Providing the collaborative development of scientific foundations for the treatment of chronic, non-communicable diseases
b) Conducting various activities ...
The WHO Countrywide Integrated Noncommunicable Diseases (CINDI) programme began in the early 1980s with preparatory meetings, and gradually countries signed an agreement with the WHO Regional Office for Europe to take part. The protocol and guidelines for the programme were prepared and published in 1987. (Leparski, E. & Nüssel, E., ed. CINDI Countrywide Integrated noncommunicable Diseases Intervention Programme. Protocol and guidelines for monitoring and evaluation procedures. Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1987)
Since then, the CINDI programme has grown to be a major European ...
Article at university newspaper about CINDI association
"LSMU AND CINDI COLLABORATION HAS ORGANISED AN INTERNATIONAL
SEMINAR, DEDICATED TO DISCUSSING NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES, ARISING FROM EVIDENCE BASED PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE", 2021-10-08 (in Lithuanian)
Article at university newspaper about CINDI association, 2021-04-09 (in Lithuanian)
Abstract
The countrywide integrated noncommunicable diseases intervention (CINDI) programme of the World
Health Organization (WHO) is a collaborative effort aimed at preventing disease and promoting health.
The handbook for process evaluation in noncommunicable disease prevention is intended to serve as a
tool for documenting preventive intervention projects and the processes that determine the impact of
intervention. It will complement two earlier CINDI documents: the Protocol and guidelines —
countrywide integrated noncommunicable ...
Abstract
Chronic diseases place an enormous health and economic burden on the population of all Member States of the WHO European Region. Evidence shows that major chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and diabetes result from a few lifestyle related behaviours. These behaviours - unhealthy diet, reduced physical activity, tobacco use and alcohol abuse - lead to obesity and hypertension and to abnormalities in lipid and carbohydrate metabolism. Although evidence is growing that these diseases can be ...
Impelled by a sudden impulse, Fernando de Padua challenged the CINDI Group to describe and write the LIFE of this program since its genesis, contemplating the present, and trying to make known to the world its near and long-term future.
It was in December 2014 - Lithuania - during a CINDI Directors Meeting, that Nilza de Assis - current Vice-President of the Professor de Padua Foundation - presented this challenge as a mission on request by «her« President. The ten participant Directors, said promptly Yes... we can do it! There was a manifest desire ...
