Addressing the high burden of noncommunicable diseases in Nigeria: a commentary

A health policy and systems approach to addressing the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases in China

28 June, 2011 • Vol. 1 No. 1 www.jogh.org Over the past two decades, China has undergone a socio-economic transition unprecedented in human history in terms of its scale and the speed of change (1,2). It is estimated that, while three quarters of the Chinese population lived in rural areas until 1990, almost half were living in cities by 2009 (3). The effect of the one-child policy introduced i...

focus on communication in iranian high school language classes: a study of the role of teaching materials in changing the focus onto communication in language classes

چکیده ارتباط در کلاس به عوامل زیادی از جمله معلمان، دانش آموزان، برنامه های درسی و از همه مهم تر، مواد آموزشی وابسته است. در تدریس ارتباطی زبان که تاکید زیادی بر توانش ارتباطی دارد، کتاب درسی به عنوان عامل موثر بر پویایی کلاس محسوب میگردد که درس ها را از طریق فراهم آوردن متن ارتباط کلاسی و هم چنین نوع تمرین زبانی که دانش آموزان در طول فعالیت های کلاسی به آن مشغول اند، کنترل می کند. این حقیقت ک...

Nursing research and the global burden of noncommunicable diseases.

Double burden of noncommunicable and infectious diseases in developing countries.

On top of the unfinished agenda of infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries, development, industrialization, urbanization, investment, and aging are drivers of an epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Malnutrition and infection in early life increase the risk of chronic NCDs in later life, and in adult life, combinations of major NCDs and infections, such as diabetes and t...

Development at risk: addressing noncommunicable diseases at the United Nations high-level meeting.