Put Disease Prevention First

Put disease prevention first.

W orldwide, noncommunicable diseases are the dominant cause of death, with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease a major contributor. 1 These deaths are spread across high-to low-income countries, with ≈1 in 3 of all cardiovas-cular disease deaths occurring in individuals aged <70 years, amounting to an estimated 6 million cases annually. 1 Analyses in many countries have shown that both an im...

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Two Ways to Put Knowledge First

Disease prevention guidelines put interprofessional collaboration to support healthy eating on the agenda.

In Sweden 50% of all women and 65% of all men are estimated to have one or more unhealthy lifestyle habits contributing to more than 20% of the total disease burden in the nation. This has led to a reaction from the government and in 2011 the National Board of Health and Welfare published national guidelines for methods of preventing disease. The methods are evidence-based and designed to suppo...