ICN Project Highlight

Nurses Leading the Fight against Non-Communicable Disease

As the world faces a massive increase in the levels of death and disability resulting from chronic disease, there is an urgent need for nurses everywhere to engage with their colleagues, communities and all sectors to address this growing threat to global health and development. ICN has joined with C3 Collaborating for Health, Pfizer External Medical Affairs, and the International Alliance of Patient Organizations to mobilise the global nursing workforce and bring together a multinational group of players contributing different perspectives and expertise in the fight against chronic disease. The coalition is working together to explore a range of nurse-led options and interventions to:

• raise awareness among nurses, communities and policy-makers of the extent of the chronic disease challenge;
• support the development, implementation and evaluation of country plans aimed at mobilising the nursing workforce;
• share and build on existing initiatives to promote health and wellbeing and prevent chronic disease;
• support the dissemination and implementation of effective evidence-based prevention interventions;
• identify how nurses can best contribute to the prevention, care, treatment and management of chronic disease; and
• support nurses in improving their own health and wellbeing and that of their families.