Key points • The global burden of and threat from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) constitute a major public health challenge that undermines social and economic development throughout the world. Prisoners are at greater risk for such diseases. • Most information on NCDs in prisoners comes from high-income countries despite the fact that globally, 80% of these deaths from these diseases are in l...

This policy brief is one of five relating to the commitment by Heads of State and Government at the High Level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases in September 2011 to call upon the private sector to contribute to the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). A separate discussion paper summarises lessons learnt to date a...

INTRODUCTION In Ethiopia, lack of reliable data on causes of death prevents full understanding of the double mortality burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases. Our objective was to help bridge this research gap by analyzing surveillance data on causes of death in Addis Ababa. METHODS Burial surveillance identified 58,010 deaths in Addis Ababa from 2006 through 2009, of which 49,30...

There are at present approximately 110 million people with diabetes in the world but this number will reach over 220 million by the year 2010, the majority of them with type 2 diabetes. Thus there is an urgent need for strategies to prevent the emerging global epidemic of type 2 diabetes to be implemented. Tackling diabetes must be part of an integrated program that addresses lifestyle related ...

BACKGROUND There is a changing pattern in terms of medical admissions worldwide with an alarming increase in the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases, especially in the tropics over the last decade. The aim of this study was to describe the pattern of medical admission and highlight emerging issues of noncommunicable diseases in a Nigerian University Teaching Hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS...