INTRODUCTION Noncommunicable diseases are increasing in developing countries, exacerbated by growing urbanization. We examined the experiences and perceptions about noncommunicable diseases of people who migrated from rural areas to urban Cape Town, South Africa. METHODS We conducted a qualitative study in an impoverished periurban township that has a noncommunicable disease prevention progra...

Recent years have demonstrated the devastating health consequences of complex emergencies and natural disasters and thereby highlighted the importance of comprehensive and collaborative approaches to humanitarian responses and risk reduction. Simultaneously, noncommunicable diseases are now recognised as a real and growing threat to population health and development; a threat that is magnified ...

Introduction Michigan has been collecting chief complaint data from emergency departments statewide to support situational awareness activities related to communicable disease since 2004. We validated the syndromic system by comparing the chief complaint data to the electronic medical records (1,2,3) of a tertiary hospital in southeast Michigan to better understand the utility of the system for...

As the world struggles to cope with communicable diseases like TB and HIV/AIDS, noncommunicable diseases (including mental disorders and injuries) are rapidly on the rise. The rapid rise in noncommunicable diseases represents one of the major health challenges to global economic and social development. It disproportionately affects those in greatest need – the poor, often women and children, an...

I would like to extend my congratulations to the Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health for the two interesting, timely articles and the accompanying editorial about the surveillance of noncommunicable diseases (1–3). After searching for evidence and dissecting the problem analytically, the authors of these papers concluded that a great majority of the preva...