In fact, in an attempt to effectively respond to the NCDs in low-resource setting, the WHO has formulated a package of interventions which can be executed at grass root level.[5] These interventions include prevention, diagnosis, management, and referral services for all major NCDs, essential tools/drugs for management of NCDs, self-care practices, and strategies for creating awareness about he...

High-quality services for people with psychosis are essential. However, in this debate David Castle questions whether separate early intervention services are the best option and argues instead for an integrated approach. Swaran Singh responds, robustly defending the value of early intervention services.

BACKGROUND Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are reaching epidemic proportions worldwide and present an unprecedented challenge to economic and social development globally. In Southeast Asia, the challenges are exacerbated by vastly differing levels of health systems development and funding availability. In addressing the burden of NCDs, ASEAN nations need to fundamentally re-examine how health ...

The growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), for example, cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) presents special challenges for policy makers, due to resource constraints and lack of timely data for decision-making. Concurrently, the increasing ubiquity of mobile phones in LMICs presents possibilities for rapid collection...

This editorial refers to ‘‘Low physical activity as a predictor for total and cardiovascular disease mortality in middle-aged men and women in Finland’’ by N.C. Barengo et al. on page 2204 and ‘‘Joint effects of physical activity, body mass index, waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio with the risk of cardiovascular disease among middle-aged Finnish men and women’’ by G. Hu et al. on page ...

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...

BACKGROUND Modification of known risk factors has been the most tested strategy for dealing with non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The cumulative number of NCD risk factors exhibited by an individual depicts a disease burden. However, understanding the risk factors associated with increased NCD burden has been constrained by scarcity of nationally representative data, especially in the developi...

This paper compares the standard Bilateral Filter and its variants such as Modified Bilateral Filter(MBF), Joint Bilateral Filter(JBF), Fuzzy Bilateral Filter(FBF) and Switching Bilateral Filter(SBF). For comparison purpose various performance matrices such as: Peak Signal to Noise Ratio(PSNR), Mean Square Error(MSE), Mean Absolute Error(MAE), Normalized Color Difference(NCD), Perceptual Qualit...

background: this article was to present the sampling and measurements methods and the main preliminary findings of the kercadr cohort study (first round) in an urban and peri-urban setting, kerman, southeastern iran2009-11. method: 5900 (3238 female) people aged between 15 to 75 years were recruited in the household survey by non-proportional to size one-stage cluster sampling. trained internal...

OBJECTIVES A national clinical database (NCD) adopted an "Internet-based collection" in 2011. An NCD specializing in chest surgery was launched based on the NCD system in 2014. The system was linked to the board certification as the second level in the hierarchy of the specialty of chest surgery and accreditation of educational institutions for chest surgery. Here, we report the status of the N...