Leveraging agriculture to tackle non-communicable diseases: report on a seminar leading up to the UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases

Leveraging agriculture to tackle non-communicable diseases: report on a seminar leading up to the UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases.

Non-communicable diseases were once thought to be a rich-country problem, but no longer. Three of five deaths worldwide are now attributed to just four noncommunicable diseases – heart disease, diabetes, lung disease and cancer. Obesity, which has been linked to an increased risk for some of these diseases as well as other health concerns, is on the rise in both developed and developing countri...

Commentary: UN high level meeting on non-communicable diseases: an opportunity for whom?

UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases: addressing four questions.

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), principally heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases, are a global crisis and require a global response. Despite the threat to human development, and the availability of affordable, cost-effective, and feasible interventions, most countries, development agencies, and foundations neglect the crisis. The UN High-Level Meeting (UN ...

A United Nation high level meeting on chronic non-communicable diseases: utility for Africa?

Africa faces an important but seemingly “neglected epidemic” of chronic non-communicable diseases (NDCs). In many countries in this part of the world, morbidity and mortality related to NCDs such as diabetes, hypertension, ischemic heart disease and stroke have alarmingly increased over the last two decades [1-3]. Various segments of the populations are affected, but mostly young adults in urba...

Cardiovascular health in the Americas: facts, priorities and the UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases.

Population aging, smoking, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity, in the context of globalization and unregulated urbanization, explain the high prevalences of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and diabetes in the Americas, making cardiovascular diseases the main cause of death. Moreover, cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors disproportionately affect the poorest people, obstructing ...