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C3 Collaborating for Health writes a variety of documents, including: submissions for consultation processes; background briefings for seminars/workshops; presentations to be given at meetings; précis of meetings; articles in journals; and newsletters.

C3 publishes a newsletter four times a year (click here >>) and also publishes an Annual Review (click here >>).

Below is a list of a selection of C3’s documents produced since summer 2009. (Please note that there is a library of documents about chronic disease prevention (including many written by C3 staff) on the OxHA website: click here >>).

2013:

  • A short summary of the state of play (as of June 2013) in developing the new global framework for NCDs, the Millennium Development Goal successors and the Sustainable Development Goals: click here >>
  • ‘Non‐communicable diseases – an introduction: A UK briefing paper’: click here >> (February)
  • A short summary of the state of play (as of February 2013) in developing the new global framework for NCDs, the Millennium Development Goal successors and the Sustainable Development Goals: click here
  • Blog on The Guardian Sustainable Business website, ‘Resolving to live the change for benefits of health and planet: click here >> (22 January)
  • ‘Changing the world’ (article on the MDGs and global health), Nursing Standard (2 January)

2012:

  • ‘Preventing and managing diabetes: an exemplar for NCDs – a C3 briefing paper’: click here >> (December 2012)
  • Contribution to BMJ Blogs site, ‘NCDs, MDGs, SDGs – a crowded space explained: click here >> (16 November)
  • Blog on The Guardian Sustainable Business website, ‘Walking for health of people and planet’: click here >> (12 November)
  • A short summary of the state of play (as of late October 2012) in developing the new global framework for NCDs, the Millennium Development Goal successors and the Sustainable Development Goals: click here >>
  • Contributions to the BMJ Blogs site on ‘NCDs and the first 1,000  days of life’: click here >> (2 November) and ‘Tobacco in pregnancy – an orphan subject’: click here >> (30 October)
  • The Health and Wellbeing Local Businesses Partnerships Final Report sets out the success and challenges of the HWLBP, and some key principles for similar projects: click here >>
  • The Benefits of Regular Walking for Health, Well-being and the Environment – a review document by C3: click here >>
  • The Benefits of Physical Activity for Health and Well-being (2nd edition) – a review document by C3: click here >>

  • Click for full text of Times letter

    A letter on cycling in London during the Olympics was the lead letter in The Times: click on image to read the full letter (14 July)

  • ‘Non-communicable diseases: Calling healthcare educators to action’ by Pat Hughes, Christine Hancock and Katy Cooper, was published in peer-reviewed journal Nursing Education Today (online here >> and appeared in October’s issue: 32: 757–9)
  • Diabetes in Wales: The Human, Social and Economic Challenge, a book produced in a partnership between C3 and Novo Nordisk, with the assistance of Diabetes UK
  • Diabetes in Northern Ireland: The Human, Social and Economic Challenge, a book produced in a partnership between C3 and Novo Nordisk, with the assistance of Diabetes UK: click here >> to download
  • Food and Health Research: A Key Role for the Private Sector is a survey by C3 of the views of major food companies to complement work undertaken by FAHRE (Food and Health Research in Europe) on how to strengthen food and health research in Europe: click here >> for C3′s report, and visit FAHRE’s website (www.spi.pt/fahre) for more information on the project
  • Diabetes in Scotland: The Human, Social and Economic Challenge, a book produced in a partnership between C3 and Novo Nordisk, with the assistance of Diabetes UK: click here >> to download
  • 28 January: Letter in The Economist on the benefits of walking: click here >>

2011:

  • Workplace Health Initiatives: Evidence of Effectiveness (December 2011) is a review of the evidence on workplace health, focusing particularly on NCDs and SMEs, and including case studies from developing countires: click here >>
  • The UN High-level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of NCDs (New York, 19–20 September 2011) and Associated Side-events – a thematic report of the UN HLM and 20 side-events: click here >>
  • ‘Non-communicable diseases in the UK: A briefing paper prepared for the UK Parliament (House of Lords), September 2011′ is a short, well-referenced paper on NCDs and the risk factors in the UK, written for a debate in the House of Lords: click here >> (The debate is available on the Hansard website here >>)
  • ‘‘The private sector, international development and NCDs’, published in peer-reviewed, online journal Globalization & Health (coauthored by Christine Hancock, Lise Kingo (Novo Nordisk A/S) and Olivier Raynaud (WEF): click here >>
  • Taking up the Challenge of Non-Communicable Commonwealth bookDiseases in the Commonwealth: 17 Good-practice Case Studies – a selection of case studies from countries including South Africa, India, Canada, the UK and Nigeria, commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat and written by C3, with contributors from C3′s global network: click here >> to download a low-resolution pdf (1.3MB)  (see also the Commonwealth’s website)
  • Food and Health: A Report on Research and Development Activity in the United States, European Commission and the United Kingdom - a document by C3 (Katy Cooper, Allison Thorpe and Ioannis Hodges-Mameltzis): click here >>
  • Diabetes: The Human, Social and Economic Challenge, a book coauthored by C3 and Novo Nordisk: click here >> to download

2010:

  • ‘Rethinking global health’ – an article by Katy Cooper about the 2010 Design and Health Conference in Europe, published in World Health Design, October 2010: click here >>
  • Precis of online collaboration: ‘A unique opportunity: the Millennium Development Goals and non-communicable disease’: click here >>
  • Report of meeting held in Washington DC, ‘Nurses leading the fight against chronic disease’: click here >> (see also website here >>)
  • Diabetes in the UK workplace – an introduction: click here >>

2009:

  • ‘Fat problem that can produce fatter profits’, Business Spectator magazine, October-November 2009: Article on the role of industry in the obesity epidemic, citing C3: click here >>
  • Presentation by Christine Hancock on the C3/DENOSA/ICN project, given at the ICN’s Quadrennial Congress in Durban, July 2009: click here >>
  • ‘Health and development: held back by non-communicable diseases’: a report of a meeting held in Geneva, May 2009: click here >>