BACKGROUND Historically, the focus of Non Communicable Disease (NCD) prevention and control has been cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), cancer and chronic respiratory diseases. Collectively, these account for more deaths than any other NCDs. Despite recent calls to include the common mental disorders (CMDs) of depression and anxiety under the NCD umbrella, prevention...

Field Surveys of diabetes and other non communicable disease (NCD) (hypertension, coronary heart disease) are increasingly being performed in both developed and developing countries [1]. Recent studies have shown that the prevalence of diabetes is very high among migrant Asian Indians [2] and is also rising very rapidly within the Indian sub continent [3]. Indeed, recent World Health Organisati...

Background Non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors can co-exist with disability and cause a greater burden on the health status of adults with disabilities. A lack of egalitarian social policies in China may result in gender disparities in the NCD risk factors of adults with disabilities. However, little is known about the gender disparities in the association between socio-demographics and...

This paper aims to examine whether Indonesia needs a Health Endowment Fund (HEF) as an effort find efficiency and effectiveness of health cover fund. Since 2014, has officially implemented National Insurance (NHI or Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional/JKN) according Indonesian Law No.40/2004. The implementation NHI is technically managed by Social Administration Organization (HSIAO), popularly known Bad...

Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) are a serious threat during the Covid-19 pandemic because they vulnerable group. Most of community’s behavior is risk factor for NCD, smoking habits, eating less fruits and vegetables, physical activity. RT 1 RW 7 Mejing Wetan, Ambarktawang, Gamping, Sleman have community groups that hold regular meetings every month, but there no forum NCD detection activities. ...

BACKGROUND There are currently more people displaced by conflict than at any time since World War II. The profile of displaced populations has evolved with displacement increasingly occurring in urban and middle-income settings. Consequently, an epidemiological shift away from communicable diseases that have historically characterized refugee populations has occurred. The high prevalence of non...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES China's nutrition transition is characterized by dramatic increases in overweight and cardiometabolic (CM) risk. The burden of obesity, CM risk factors and dietary intake among Chinese children were explored. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN Children 7-12 y old from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey with available dietary intake data, anthropometry, blood pressure, ...

Objectives: The objective of this study is to investigate the feasibility and outcomes of an integrated screening programme for risk factors associated with diabetes and hypertension in a busy HIV treatment clinic in rural Swaziland. Methods: The screening programme identifies patients with risk factors for hypertension and diabetes mellitus (DM). Patients with one or more risk factor also had ...

BACKGROUND Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are an emerging global health concern. Reports have shown that, in Zambia, NCDs are also an emerging problem and the government has begun initiating a policy response. The present study explores the policy response to NCDs by the Ministry of Health in Zambia using the policy triangle framework of Walt and Gilson. METHODS A qualitative approach was u...

OBJECTIVE Although the WHO-developed Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) tool is a comprehensive and widely applied survey of health facility preparedness, SARA data have not previously been used to model predictors of readiness. We sought to demonstrate that SARA data can be used to model availability of essential medicines for treating non-communicable diseases (EM-NCD). ME...