The rapid growth in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including injury and poor mental health, in low- and middle-income countries and the widening social gradients in NCDs within most countries worldwide pose major challenges to health and social systems and to development more generally. As Earth's surface temperature rises, a consequence of human-induced climate change, incidences of severe h...

In this abstract I briefly describe the nutrition transition, how it is taking hold in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) worldwide, and potential public health interventions emphasizing whole grain foods with a perspective on primordial prevention of noncommunicable chronic diseases (NCDs).

Over the past few years, lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) have been increasingly plagued by two distressing trends: increasing numbers of deaths as a result of terrorist incidents and increasing incidence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including cancer. The daunting and at times overwhelming nature of these issues provides the incentive needed to build uniquely effective global probl...

The rising incidence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), especially in young adults, presents great humanitarian and economic challenges to high-resource and, increasingly, to low-resource countries. No longer considered to be diseases of affluence, NCDs are exacerbated by urbanization and changes in social and lifestyle factors such as diet and family size. New research emphasizes the importan...

Abstract Air pollution is a major environmental risk factor and contributor to chronic, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). However, most public health approaches NCD prevention focus on behavioural biomedical factors, rather than factors such as air pollution. This article discusses the implications of focus. It then outlines opportunities for those in science work together across three key areas...

The 2008-2013 World Health Organization (WHO) action plan on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) includes chronic respiratory diseases as one of its four priorities. Major chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) include asthma and rhinitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, occupational lung diseases, sleep-disordered breathing, pulmonary hypertension, bronchiectiasis and pulmonary interstitial di...

Noncommunicable diseases NCDs are the major cause of morbidity and mortality in Bahrain. The review examines the prevalence of risk factors of major NCDs from the available literature and determines the impact of the rapid socio economic changes on their burden. It further recommends ways of improving their reporting and monitoring. Smoking, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, phys...

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of morbidity, mortality, and disability in Americas. NCDs largely preventable because modifiable nature their risk factors, including elevated consumption processed ultra-processed products that can be traced to recurrent practices food beverage industry. This article explores diet-related factors as a human rights issue should addressed wit...

Noncommunicable diseases have potentially serious socioeconomic consequences, through increasing individual and household impoverishment and hindering social and economic development. This chapter examines the relationship between NCDs and socioeconomic conditions. It demonstrates that the distribution and impact of NCDs and their risk factors is highly inequitable and imposes a disproportionat...

Editorials 623 Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), namely cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes , cause 63% of the world's total mortality. 1 Of the premature deaths from NCDs that occur in people between the ages of 30 and 70 years, 86% – i.e. approximately 12 million – occur in developing countries. 2 The cumulative economic losses to low-and middle-income c...