The General Population Cohort (GPC) was set up in 1989 to examine trends in HIV prevalence and incidence, and their determinants in rural south-western Uganda. Recently, the research questions have included the epidemiology and genetics of communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to address the limited data on the burden and risk factors for NCDs in sub-Saharan Africa. The cohort compr...

www.jogh.org • doi: 10.7189/jogh.02.020301 1 December 2012 • Vol. 2 No. 2 • 020301 Agenda item 117 of the 66 th session of the United Nations General Assembly was a watershed for global health. It marked the adoption by the General Assembly on the 16 of September 2011 of the political declaration of the High–level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable...

The United Nations "25 × 25 Strategy" of decreasing non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases, by 25% by 2025 does not appear to take into account all causes of NCDs. Its focus is on a few diseases, which are often linked with life-style factors with "voluntary" "modifiable behavioral risk factors" causes tending towar...

With non-communicable diseases (NCDs) projected to become leading causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries, research is needed to improve the primary care response, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. This region has a particularly high double burden of communicable diseases and NCDs and the least resources for an effective response. There is a lack of good quality epidemiologica...

BACKGROUND India is rapidly undergoing an epidemiological transition with a sudden change in the disease profile of its population. It is important to understand the changing nature of the burden of disease across the states of India for adequate policy intervention. METHODS We analyzed the trend and pattern of self-reported morbidity across states of India using three rounds of (52nd, 60th a...

originally, public health actions turned to the living conditions that prevented the development of countries in the process of increasing urbanization, especially protecting their workers and tackling economic losses. the actions were primarily directed to infectious diseases. today, the process of urbanization in most countries of the world is consolidated, and new health problems that affect...

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.

The global public health focus is gradually concentrating more on the non-communicable diseases (NCDs), owing to the progressively increasing trend in the burden of NCDs worldwide including the developing countries. Among these NCDs, the silent epidemic of diabetes currently has become one of the most worrisome public health concerns [1-3]. Diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous metabolic syndrom...

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...