Derek Yach
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1735990 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Derek Yach |
| NOMBRES | Derek |
| APELLIDO | Yach |
| FIRMA | YACH D |
| AFILIACIONES | World Health Organization |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5667-6446 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Understanding research gaps and priorities for tobacco harm reduction in low-income and middle-income countries
Introduction Tobacco use is among the leading preventable causes of premature death worldwide, with disproportionate effects in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Global tobacco control efforts have shown inconsistent results, highlighting the need for innovative approaches, such as tobacco harm reduction (THR), to complement existing strategies. We aimed to identify gaps in THR research in the global and LMIC contexts. Methods We co…
Restricting Flavors in ENDS Could Have Repercussions Beyond Youths’ Use
Transformation of the Tobacco Industry
Health as a Cornerstone of Good Business and Sustainable Development
The article discusses health, business, and sustainable development in relation to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and it mentions how some governments and business sectors around the world are leading the development of environmental improvement-related innovative products and services. Companies' reporting of progress on environmental issues is examined, along with efforts to improve business reputation and access to capital. Employee and …
World Health Organization Reform—A Normative or an Operational Organization
Global health security
The Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa was unprecedented in both its scale and impact. Out of this human calamity has come renewed attention to global health security--its definition, meaning, and the practical implications for programmes and policy. For example, how does a government begin to strengthen its core public health capacities, as demanded by the International Health Regulations? What counts as a global health security concern…
Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch
Research to stop tobacco deaths
In 2003, governments adopted the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the world's first global health treaty. In the decade since the treaty was adopted by 178 member states of the World Health Organization, there have been substantial achievements in reducing tobacco use around the world. Research and evidence on the impact of interventions and policies have helped drive this policy progress. An increased and sustained focus on research is n…
Getting Us Back into the Kitchen
Food Politics
Major multinational food and beverage companies and informal sector contributions to global food consumption
BACKGROUND: In recent years, 10 major multinational food and beverage companies have worked together within the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) to increase their commitments to public health. Current IFBA commitments include initiatives to improve the nutrition quality of products and how these products are advertised to children. The impact and magnitude of IFBA member contributions to the total market share of packaged foods and…
P1-126 Nutrition needs to develop effective measurement policies
Measurements of food and nutrition availability and intake inform national policy, standards and research. However, existing nutrition data are not complete and often subject to error. Accurate and comprehensive data are needed on the source of food and nutrients. Nutrient sources amenable to intervention and the cost of such interventions must be described to determine feasible approaches. Food sales data describes the formal sector, omitting th…
The role and challenges of the food industry in addressing chronic disease
The rising global burden of nutrition-related diseases[ 1 ] calls for concerted action. There is an emerging urgent need to resolve acute and chronic hunger, malnutrition, and undernutrition[ 2 ]. In particular, compromised nutritional status of mothers and children very early in life has significant impact on the future occurrence of chronic diseases such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes[ 3 , 4 ]. Concurrently, populations are faced with inc…
Enabling access to new WHO essential medicines
Nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) are powerful tools for the successful treatment of nicotine addiction and tobacco use. The medicines are clinically effective, supported by the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and are now World Health Organization-approved essential medicines. Enabling global access to NRT remains a challenge given ongoing confusion and misperceptions about their efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and availability with res…
Can the Food Industry Help Tackle the Growing Global Burden of Undernutrition
HUNGER AND UNDERNUTRITION remain major threats to global health. The solutions required will be complex and long term and should include stronger private–public collaboration. We identify eight specific actions by food companies that could contribute to reducing hunger worldwide. These include investing in agriculture, especially local smallholders; expanding use of corporations’ core capabilities in distribution and quality control; greater supp…
Yach Et Al. Repond
We agree with Addo et al. that strong government leadership is needed for progress to be made in preventing micronutrient deficiencies in populations. However, the last 60 years has shown that without widespread and active collaboration with the food industry, government regulations and recommendations do not achieve their desired impact.1 For example, a recent review of factors leading to successful implementation of a salt iodization program in…
The role of business in addressing the long-term implications of the current food crisis
Food companies and nutrition for better health
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Grand challenges in chronic non-communicable diseases
Cohort Profile
The late 1980s were a period of profound sociopolitical change in South Africa. It was clear that the Apartheid state was crumbling and amongst acts of civil disobedience which characterized the struggle Black Africansy began to disregard restrictive legislation that constrained where they lived and worked. Very rapid unplanned urbanization began and shanty towns mushroomed around formerly White cities and towns. It was anticipated that this rapi…
The Answer to Diabetes Prevention
The diabetes and obesity epidemics are closely intertwined. International randomized controlled trials demonstrate that, in high-risk individuals, type 2 diabetes can be prevented or at least delayed through lifestyle modification and, to a lesser degree, medication. We explored the relative roles of science, surgery, service delivery, and social policy in preventing diabetes. Although it is clear that there is a role for all, diabetes is a compl…
Globalization and Health
The tremendous benefits which have been conferred to almost 5 billion people through improved technologies and knowledge highlights the concomitant challenge of bringing these changes to the 1 billion people living mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia who are yet to benefit. There is a growing awareness of the need to reduce human suffering and of the necessary participation of governments, non-government organizations and industry within …
Report of a pre ICN workshop on Negotiating the Future of Nutrition, Johannesburg, South Africa, 18 September 2005
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The Global Burden of Chronic Diseases
Chronic diseases are the largest cause of death in the world. In 2002, the leading chronic diseases--cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and diabetes--caused 29 million deaths worldwide. Despite growing evidence of epidemiological and economic impact, the global response to the problem remains inadequate. Stakeholders include governments, the World Health Organization and other United Nations bodies, academic and research…
Achieving the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s potential by investing in national capacity
May 2003 marked a critical achievement in efforts to stem the global tobacco epidemic, as the member states of the World Health Organization unanimously endorsed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). However, the adoption of the FCTC signifies only the end of the beginning of effective global action to control tobacco. Over the next several years the utility of the FCTC process and the treaty itself will be tested as individual coun…
The globalization of public health, I
The globalization of public health poses new threats to health but also holds important opportunities in the coming century. This commentary identifies the major threats and opportunities presented by the process of globalization and emphasizes the need for transnational public health approaches to take advantage of the positive aspects of global change and to minimize the negative ones. Transnational public health issues are areas of mutual conc…
Public health initiatives in South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s
Inspiration drawn from South African public health initiatives in the 1940s played an important role in the development of the network of community and migrant health centers in the United States. The first such center at Pholela in Natal emphasized the need for a comprehensive (preventive and curative) service that based its practices on empirical data derived from epidemiological and anthropological research. In addition, community consultation…
The use and value of qualitative methods in health research in developing countries
Urbanisation and health
The globalization of public health, II
The transnationalization of disease and health risks will require global awareness, analysis, and action and indicates a need for global cooperation. Transnational actions must be built on firm local and national foundations, but they also require new forms of transnational collaboration in order to minimize risks and build on opportunities. In a world characterized by the globalization of public health, countries and communities will need to loo…
Junking Science to Promote Tobacco
Despite the tobacco industry's claims that it has changed its practices, the toll of tobacco-related disease and death continues to grow worldwide, and the industry continues to use a vast array of strategies to promote its products and increase profits. This commentary discusses the ways the tobacco industry has created controversy about risk assessment and about the scientific evidence of the health hazards of secondhand smoke. The authors reco…
The impact of political violence on health and health services in Cape Town, South Africa, 1986
Cape Town, South Africa experienced an upsurge in the level of political violence from May to July of 1986. To determine the impact of the political violence on health and health services, selected routinely available information was analyzed, a community survey was conducted of 1,540 randomly selected households in high, medium, and low impact areas (defined using police and community reports), and a survey of 162 nurses (75 per cent response ra…
The distribution of health needs and services in south Africa
Determinants of cigarette smoking in the black township population of Cape Town
There is concern about the increasing tobacco consumption in developing countries, especially in urban communities. Little information is available on the prevalence and determinants of smoking in black townships in South Africa. We therefore conducted a survey of the smoking practices in three such townships in Cape Town, in which 673 higher primary schoolchildren and 1320 adults were interviewed using a WHO questionnaire translated into Xhosa. …
Can the Food Industry Help Tackle the Growing Global Burden of Undernutrition
HUNGER AND UNDERNUTRITION remain major threats to global health. The solutions required will be complex and long term and should include stronger private–public collaboration. We identify eight specific actions by food companies that could contribute to reducing hunger worldwide. These include investing in agriculture, especially local smallholders; expanding use of corporations’ core capabilities in distribution and quality control; greater supp…
International health in the 21st Century
The Globalisation of Public Health Ethics
Tuberculosis in the Western Cape health region of South Africa
Restricting Flavors in ENDS Could Have Repercussions Beyond Youths’ Use
World Health Organization Reform—A Normative or an Operational Organization
Yach and Bialous Respond
Our commentary is based on facts supported by the evidence cited, not on “innuendo and guilt by association” or “ad hominem attack.” The individuals and organizations mentioned are merely representative of the web of front groups and alliances created by the tobacco industry in its continuing attempts to dismiss the overwhelming scientific evidence linking secondhand smoke with death and disease. ILSI's current membership roster lists Kraft Foods…
Unhealthy consumption threatens sustainable development
The impact of political violence on health and health services in Cape Town, South Africa, 1986
Cape Town, South Africa experienced an upsurge in the level of political violence from May to July of 1986. To determine the impact of the political violence on health and health services, selected routinely available information was analyzed, a community survey was conducted of 1,540 randomly selected households in high, medium, and low impact areas (defined using police and community reports), and a survey of 162 nurses (75 per cent response ra…
Tuberculosis in the Western Cape health region of South Africa
The distribution of health needs and services in south Africa
Determinants of cigarette smoking in the black township population of Cape Town
There is concern about the increasing tobacco consumption in developing countries, especially in urban communities. Little information is available on the prevalence and determinants of smoking in black townships in South Africa. We therefore conducted a survey of the smoking practices in three such townships in Cape Town, in which 673 higher primary schoolchildren and 1320 adults were interviewed using a WHO questionnaire translated into Xhosa. …
Urbanisation and health
Smoking in South Africa
Correspondence to: Dr Yach. Abstract Objective -To describe the health and economic impact of tobacco in South Africa and to indicate current prevention activities. Methods Routinely available mortality statistics, hospital discharge data, and prevalence data from the private and public sectors were collated and analysed. Results -In 1988 deaths from smoking related diseases in South Africa accounted for 33 7 % of white, 25 8 % of Asian, 16-6% of…
The use and value of qualitative methods in health research in developing countries
Mortality in a Rural South African Mission, 1837–1909
Three decadal birth cohorts (1837-1846), 1870-1879 and 1900-1909) each of approximately 500 individuals, were constructed retrospectively through the parish records of the Moravian Mission at Mamre in the Western Cape region of South Africa. Nominative data collection techniques were used to determine the infant mortality rates (IMR), quinquennial mortality rates (QMR) and life expectancies of the three cohorts. The quality of the data was invest…
How much does Ciba-Geigy really want to reduce smoking
Public health initiatives in South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s
Inspiration drawn from South African public health initiatives in the 1940s played an important role in the development of the network of community and migrant health centers in the United States. The first such center at Pholela in Natal emphasized the need for a comprehensive (preventive and curative) service that based its practices on empirical data derived from epidemiological and anthropological research. In addition, community consultation…
Progress in achieving international tobacco control
Telecommunications for Health--New Opportunities for Action
Profound and rapid changes in telecommunications are transforming the way in which decisions are made in all fields of human development. Simultaneously, there has been a global review of progress made in moving towards health for all over the last 20 years. This paper highlights lessons learnt since Alma Ata and indicates how telecommunications can address many challenges to health in innovative ways provided barriers to use are removed.
Research for effective global tobacco control in the 21st century
The Globalisation of Public Health Ethics
The globalization of public health, II
The transnationalization of disease and health risks will require global awareness, analysis, and action and indicates a need for global cooperation. Transnational actions must be built on firm local and national foundations, but they also require new forms of transnational collaboration in order to minimize risks and build on opportunities. In a world characterized by the globalization of public health, countries and communities will need to loo…
The globalization of public health, I
The globalization of public health poses new threats to health but also holds important opportunities in the coming century. This commentary identifies the major threats and opportunities presented by the process of globalization and emphasizes the need for transnational public health approaches to take advantage of the positive aspects of global change and to minimize the negative ones. Transnational public health issues are areas of mutual conc…
Globalisation of tobacco industry influence and new global responses
The globalisation of tobacco marketing, trade, research, and industry influence represents a major threat to public health worldwide. Drawing upon tobacco industry strategy documents prepared over several decades, this paper will demonstrate how the tobacco industry operates as a global force, regarding the world as its operating market by planning, developing, and marketing its products on a global scale. The industry has used a wide range of me…
Whose standard is it, anyway? How the tobacco industry determines the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards for tobacco and tobacco products
ISO's tobacco and tobacco products standards are not adequate to guide tobacco products regulatory policies, and no health claims can be made based on ISO's tobacco products standards. There is an urgent need for tobacco control advocates and groups worldwide to be more involved with the work of the ISO, both directly and through their national standardisation organisations
Junking Science to Promote Tobacco
Despite the tobacco industry's claims that it has changed its practices, the toll of tobacco-related disease and death continues to grow worldwide, and the industry continues to use a vast array of strategies to promote its products and increase profits. This commentary discusses the ways the tobacco industry has created controversy about risk assessment and about the scientific evidence of the health hazards of secondhand smoke. The authors reco…
Trends and affordability of cigarette prices
The results suggest that there is ample room to increase tobacco prices through taxation. In too many countries, cigarette prices have failed to keep up with increases in the general price level of goods and services, rendering them more affordable in 2000 than they were at the beginning of the decade. Opportunities to increase government revenue and improve health through reduced consumption brought about by higher prices have been overlooked in…
Broadening the Focus of Epidemiology and Public Health Training
The mission of the Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET) is to strengthen international public health capacity through initiating and supporting field-based training programs that enhance applied epidemiology and public health interventions.1 The vast majority of the programs investigated by TEPHINET professionals are directed at communicable diseases. This emphasis, although understandable, ignores …
Yach and Bialous Respond
Our commentary is based on facts supported by the evidence cited, not on “innuendo and guilt by association” or “ad hominem attack.” The individuals and organizations mentioned are merely representative of the web of front groups and alliances created by the tobacco industry in its continuing attempts to dismiss the overwhelming scientific evidence linking secondhand smoke with death and disease. ILSI's current membership roster lists Kraft Foods…
Unhealthy consumption threatens sustainable development
International health in the 21st Century
Globalisation and the prevention and control of non-communicable disease
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