One size does not fit all: Implementation of interventions for non-communicable diseases

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1WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of NCDs, Moscow, Russia; 2Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA; 3WHO Collaborating Centre on Implementation Research for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; 4Division of Noncommunicable Diseases and Promoting Health through the Life-course, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark; 5World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; 6Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK Contributors and sources:NT, KW, and JB conceived the study and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. JB, DP, IR, BO, BM, RS, CV, TC, and JF provided feedback and input to the original draft and subsequent iterations. We thank Francesco Silva for providing invaluable insights on his practical experiences with NCD policy implementation in Portugal. Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare. Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; externally peer reviewed. This article is part of a series proposed by the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs and commissioned by The BMJ, which peer reviewed, edited, and made the decision to publish. Open access fees are funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), UNOPS Defeat-NCD Partnership, Government of the Russian Federation, and WHO.