266 Perspectives in Public Health l September 2016 Vol 136 No 5 Copyright © Royal Society for Public Health 2016 SAGE Publications ISSN 1757-9139 DOI: 10.1177/1757913916658626 IntroductIon Reductionism pervades the current Western biomedical health model, whereby complex biological or medical phenomena are deconstructed into many parts in an attempt to focus on a singular dominant factor or roo...

Abstract The objective was to identify the impact of social distance in management noncommunicable diseases (NCD) adult population from state Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. This is an ambispective, population-based cohort study. Descriptive analysis and Poisson regression models were used results reported as prevalence ratio 95% confidence intervals. From a total 1,288 participants, 43.1% ...

The WHO has ranked environmental hazardous exposures in the living and working environment among the top risk factors for chronic disease mortality. Worldwide, about 40 million people die each year from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) including cancer, diabetes, and chronic cardiovascular, neurological and lung diseases. The exposure to ambient pollution in the living and working environment is...

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are a leading contributor to preventable mortality and impoverishment in low- middle-income countries (LMICs). To support developing holistic integrated NCD plans, the World Health Organization (WHO) has produced get rid of this Multisectoral Action Plan (MSAP) guidance. date, over 160 have MSAPs uploaded them WHO's document repository. We examined content compre...

By 2030, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) will be the leading cause of death in every region in the world. While law and policy have an important role to play in curbing this pandemic, our current understanding of how they can most effectively be used is still limited. This contribution identifies a number of gaps in current research and insists on an interdisciplinary research agenda between la...

The clinical and empirical health benefits of yoga and pranayam have been reiterated through research. Yoga is being adopted as a system to alleviate the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) across the globe. The Directorate of AYUSH, Government of Chhattisgarh (DoA, GoCG) conducts annual 5-day-yoga camp across 146 Ayurvedgrams in the State. The present article brings out the AYUSH initiat...

Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing a multiple disease burden. Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are emerging, and their risk factors are becoming more common as lifestyles change and rates of urbanization increase. Simultaneously, epidemics of infectious diseases persist, and HIV/AIDS has taken hold in the region, although recent data indicate a decrease in new HIV infection rates. With the use o...

The epidemiological transition in the 20th century was accompanied by a fall in deaths and disability from communicable diseases and an increase in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Of the NCDs, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is now the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. In 2013, the World Health Organization launched the 25×25 Global Action Plan, an ambitious road map for countri...

This paper reviews the current situation concerning nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases (N-NCDs) and the risk factors associated with these diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR). A systematic literature review of studies and reports published between January 1, 1990 and September 15, 2011 was conducted using the PubMed and Google Scholar databases. Cardiovascular disease, ty...