Prevention of Disease-related Mortality from Chronic Non-communicable Diseases

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...

Air Pollution and Primordial Prevention of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases

Early-life prevention of non-communicable diseases.

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are major causes of death worldwide and underlie almost two-thirds of all global deaths. Although all countries face epidemics of these diseases, low-income and middleincome countries, and the poorest and most vulnerable populations within them, are aff ected the most. There is a global imperative to create and implement eff ective prevention strategies, because...

Globalisation and the prevention and control of non-communicable disease: the neglected chronic diseases of adults.

The growing global burden of non-communicable diseases in poor countries and poor populations has been neglected by policy makers, major multilateral and bilateral aid donors, and academics. Despite strong evidence for the magnitude of this burden, the preventability of its causes, and the threat it poses to already strained health care systems, national and global actions have been inadequate....

Mortality from non-communicable diseases in South Africa, 1997-2009

There are estimates of the magnitude of non-communicable disease deaths for less developed countries but little is known about the dynamics in Africa. The continent is undergoing unprecedented growth of the elderly population. This raises the need to examine mortality from non-communicable diseases. This study examines mortality attributable to non-communicable diseases in South Africa during t...