Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of mortality, morbidity, and disability worldwide. They pose immense health and socio-economic burden to all countries and particularly to the poorest segments of the global population that greatly lack access to quality health services. They constitute a major threat to public health and economic security.

Fortunately, NCDs are largely preventable by effective large-scale implementation of high-level political commitments made in 2011, 2014, 2015, and 2018 for the prevention and control of NCDs.

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2016 ‘Framework on integrated, people-centered health services’ emphasized the importance of organizing primary health care (PHC) around the comprehensive needs of people, rather than around a singular focus of specific diseases. When combined with population-wide preventative measures, people-centered PHC can prove very effective in tackling NCDs both at the population and individual levels.

This assessment is related to the Primary Health Care Measurement and Improvement (PHCMI) initiative framework and other NCD-related different surveys and assessments.