The Growing Burden Of Noncommunicable Diseases

Growing burden of noncommunicable diseases: the contributory role of oral diseases, Eastern Mediterranean Region perspective.

Associations of oral diseases with noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, osteoporosis and chronic renal failure are widely reported in the literature from developed countries. Commonality of risk factors, changes in systemic inflammatory mediators and body metabolism play a role in this association. This paper reviews current knowledge...

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...

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...

Projected Burden of Chronic, Noncommunicable Diseases in Jordan

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are a global challenge. During the next several decades, NCDs will govern the health care needs of populations in most lowand middle-income countries because of declines in communicable diseases, conditions related to childbirth and nutrition, changes in lifestyle factors (eg, smoking), and population aging (1). We examined the burden of NCDs in the Hashemite Kin...