Community Participation in Non-communicable Disease Integrated Counselling Unit

An integrated approach to communicable disease surveillance.

Effective communicable disease control relies on effective response systems and effective response systems rely on effective disease surveillance. A functional surveillance system is essential in providing information for action on priority communicable diseases; it is a crucial instrument for public health decision-making in all countries. Surveillance data provide information, which can be us...

Non-Communicable Disease Mortality among a Sample of Older People in Iran from 2007 to 2018

Introduction: Increasing age is one of the most important predictors of mortality among aged population. Therefore, determining the causes of death among older people could be imperative. The purpose of this study was to investigate non-communicable disease mortality among a sample of older people in Iran from 2007 to 2018. Methods: This was a retrospective descriptive study that applied censu...

Non communicable disease and risky behaviour in an urban university community Nigeria.

BACKGROUND Most developing countries have only limited information on the burden of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) even though rapid transitions in these NCDs have been predicted. OBJECTIVES To describe the burden of selected NCDs and associated risk behaviours in an urban university community in Nigeria. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of 525 representative staff of a University in a la...

Financing national non-communicable disease responses

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) (also known as socially transmitted diseases) were conspicuously absent from the Millennium Development Goals and seemed to miss out on the 'golden years' of health funding despite causing more death and disability than any other disease group worldwide. The share of 'development assistance for health' dedicated to NCDs has remained at 1-2% of the total since 20...

Non-communicable disease surveillance and population surveys.