INTRODUCTION In Malawi, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are thought to cause 28% of deaths in adults. The aim of this study was to establish the extent of primary care morbidity related to NCDs, as well as to audit the quality of care, in the primary care setting of Dedza District, central Malawi. METHODS This study was a baseline audit using clinic registers and a questionnaire survey of se...

Abstract Introduction The numerous health benefits of physical activity (PA) for people with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are well-documented. In Germany, there limited data on whether adults NCDs fulfill health-oriented PA recommendations. This study describes the prevalence meeting recommendations among select NCDs. Method Based national representative GEDA-2014/2015-EHIS ( N = 24,016), s...

In recognition of Korea's rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), we investigated the nation's NCD status and extracted detailed information from the 2012 Korean Burden of Disease study. Consistent with that study, we used disability-adjusted life year (DALY) as a metric. Using national data sources and disability weights specific to the Korean population, we analyzed 116 disaggregat...

Public health in sub-Saharan African countries is experiencing a double burden of diseases. First, for decades, these have been struggling against infectious Second, the demographic transition area leading to rising prevalence non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Unfortunately, systems Africa are vulnerable, under-resourced, and unable address public issues. Furthermore, protracted political insta...

BACKGROUND Over the past two decades, international health policies focusing on the fight against the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), tuberculosis (TB), malaria, and those diseases that address maternal and child health problems, among others, have skewed disease control priorities in China and other Asian countries. Although these are important healt...

The 21st century is an era of great challenge for humankind; we are combating terrorism, climate change, poverty, human rights issues and last but not least non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The burden of the latter has become so large that it is being recognized by world leaders globally as an area that it is in need of much greater attention. In light of this concern, the World Health Organiz...

BACKGROUND The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 include reducing premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by one third. To assess the feasibility of this goal in China, we projected premature mortality in 2030 of NCDs under different risk factor reduction scenarios. METHODS We used China results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 as empirical d...

The report written by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016 presents an extensive assessment to show how improvement of environment can promote health and well-being. awareness many diseases could be avoided focusing on environmental risk factors would give a boost global efforts preventive health. results obtained quantitative analysis burden attributable environment, confirm that 24% de...

Non-Alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a broad term covering spectrum of conditions ranging from hepatic steatosis, steatohepatitis and cirrhosis. NAFLD highly prevalent across all regions the world with its global prevalence 25.2%(95%CI:22.1-28.7). It commonly referred as ‘hepatic manifestation’ metabolic syndrome (MetS). Moreover, it strongly associated individual components well MetS w...