In January this year, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board agreed to forward the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health to its World Health Assembly, after allowing countries an extended period until February 29 for comments. A final draft strategy will be considered by WHO member states this May. The strategy is an important global public health initiative, ...

In January this year, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board agreed to forward the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health to its World Health Assembly, after allowing countries an extended period until February 29 for comments. A final draft strategy will be considered by WHO member states this May. The strategy is an important global public health initiative, ...

background: non-communicable diseases (ncds) annually kill over 35 million people worldwide. they are responsible for nearly two-thirds of the world's deaths. global health is facing a dramatic change. for the first time in human history, more than 80% of ncd-related deaths are in low- and middle-income countries. countries throughout the world are expected to lose significant amounts of nation...

With rapidly increasing globalization, trends towards unhealthy diets, obesity, sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy habits are resulting in an increased worldwide burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In Africa this means that health systems face the challenge of an increasing burden of NCDs and of continuing high morbidity and mortality from communicable diseases. This health tran...

This article proposes an age-structured compartment model for irreversible diseases with a pre-clinical state of undiagnosed cases that precedes the diagnosis. The model is able to cope with mortality rates differing between the pre-clinical and the clinical state (differential mortality). Applicability is tested in a hypothetical disease with realistic incidence and mortality rates.

In recent years, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have globally shown increasing impact on health status in populations with disproportionately higher rates in developing countries. NCDs are the leading cause of mortality worldwide and a serious public health threat to developing countries. Recognizing the importance and urgency of the issue, a one-day symposium was organized on NCDs in Develop...

In the last decades, prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has escalated in Nepal. This study reviews existing evidence on the burden of non-communicable diseases in Nepal using the framework developed by Arksey and O'Malley for scoping reviews. A total of 110 articles were identified from database searches, and four from additional searches. The titles and abstracts were reviewed usin...

In May 2010, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that called for high-level meetings to address the global burden of NCDs. This paper highlights the growing global burden of NCDs (cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and diabetes), provides a brief historical background on the adoption o...

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have become leading causes of mortality and morbidity as part of historical epidemiological, demographic and nutritional transitions. There has been considerable historical analysis of the immediate and underlying causes of this change in the impacts of communicable diseases and NCDs, but far less historical analysis of how this transition has shaped medical pra...