NCD Data presents information for each country related to their NCD mortality, morbidity, risk factors and national systems capacity to prevent and control NCDs. The data include the number, rates and causes of deaths from NCDs and trends in NCD mortality; the prevalence of selected risk factors; and information describing current national responses to prevention and control of NCDs
NCD Data is an app that works on your mobile device (smartphone or tablet computer) in the offline (no internet connection) mode. The app, when it is installed from the App store, comes with data for a number of indicators, which are stored in the device’s memory.
The data retrieval options -- BY COUNTRY, BY TOPIC, ADVANCED QUERY and PUBLICATIONS fetch data from the mobile device’s memory.
While reviewing the tables and charts displayed by the NCD Data, it is important to know the symbols in tables and their meaning.
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.. |
Means that data are not available or that aggregates cannot be calculated because of missing data in the years shown |
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0 or 0.0 |
Means zero or small enough that the number would round to zero at the displayed number of decimal places |
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> |
Means more than |
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< |
Means less than |
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ND |
Not Determined |
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NR |
Not Recorded |
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DK |
Don't Know |
A blank means not applicable or, for an aggregate, not analytically meaningful
A billion is 1,000 million
A trillion is 1,000 billion
HOW TO USE NCD DATA?
The NCD DATA provides four different ways to access the data.
By Country
By Topic
Advanced Query
Profiles
The BY COUNTRY tab provides access to key noncommunicable disease indicators for the selected country from an alphabetical list of countries. You can also “Search” a country by entering a part of the country name in the “Search box”.
View metadata for the indicator or the country by clicking on the blue icon next to the country or indicator.
Compare the indicator report for another country for the most recent year’s data.
View a line chart for an indicator
Change the years being viewed for the line chart
Choose the map option to view a world map for the selected indicator for a given year.
The screen shots below show the above functionalities.
The BY TOPIC tab provides access to a pre-selected set of indicators relevant to the topic. For example, choosing the “Age-Standardized cancer mortality Trends” topic displays a report of the prevalence of age-standardized cancer mortality trends for the first country in the alphabetical list. From this screen you can choose to
Select a different country to view the data for the selected topic.
Comparable indicators can be selected and compared between countries
View a line chart for any indicator in that topic
Change the years being viewed for the line chart
Choose the map option to view a world map for the selected indicator for a given year
Put the map in motion by using the “Play” option and change the map for all the years.
The ADVANCED QUERY tab provides access to all the key noncommunicable disease indicators. This feature allows the user to create specific queries, save and email these data.
The Advanced Query allows
Selecting a pre-defined query. These are sample queries, which cannot be edited.
Creating a new query, either a Table/Chart Query, or a Map Query.
For the Table/Chart Query, select countries from an alphabetical list of countries, indicators from an indicator list arranged by topics, and the time period (years) by either choosing a range of years, or by choosing the number of years going back from the current year.
For the Map Query, select the indicators and time period as above. All countries will be selected by the query.
Viewing and saving the query.
Editing a saved query i.e. changing the countries, or indicators or the time period.
Viewing a query as a table or a line/bar chart. .
Pivoting the query in a table.
Sending the data as a CSV file attachment to an email.
Sharing comments and screenshots via Facebook, Twitter or email.
The screen shots below show the above functionalities.
The mobile application provides you a variety of options to share the data outputs, such as the tables, charts and maps with others. There is an option to send a “CSV” file of the data seen on the screen as an Email attachment to others for review and analysis. You can also post the screenshots on your Facebook or Twitter pages right from the app. While on any report, or chart, or map touch the share button on top menu bar to see the various options for sharing.
FEEDBACK
You can use the feedback link to write to us with your suggestions and feedback. If you like this app you can rate it by using the “Rate this App” option and sending it to the App Store.
The ABOUT tab includes a short description of this NCD Data application, contact information and a link to this Help page.
