While low and middle-income countries have been struggling with communicable diseases for many years, they are now stuck with noncommunicable diseases and road traffic accidents putting them in triple burden. In recent years, non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, mental illnesses, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and cancers have become an emerging pandemic ...

734 www.thelancet.com Vol 388 August 20, 2016 Concurrent with the global increase in obesity, numerous studies and reviews have been published concerning associations of overweight and obesity with mortality. Their fi ndings have prompted considerable public health debate. There is ongoing discussion as to whether cutoff points for body-mass index (BMI) categories should diff er across regions ...

1Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Jämtland County Council, Östersund, Sweden; 2Department of Clinical Microbiology, Unit of Clinical Research CenterÖstersund, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; 3Centre of Registers in Northern Sweden, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; 4Swedish Health Care Direct 1177, Jämtland County Council, Östersund, Sweden; 5Department of Clinical Microbi...

BACKGROUND WHO estimates suggest that age-specific death rates from non-communicable diseases are higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in high-income countries. The objectives of this study were to examine, in Burkina Faso, the prevalence of non-communicable disease symptoms by age, gender, socioeconomic group and setting (rural/urban), and to assess gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the pr...

background and purpose: surveillance is a system of continuing health checks, is considered as a critical part of public health practice for planning and implantation of effective prevention and control interventions for communicable diseases in the region. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of an active method of data collection on the improvement of these diseases surveillance...

Non-communicable disease (NCD, hereinafter referred as chronic disease) accounts for 80% of total mortality from various causes in China, and has become a persistent global challenge. However, while there is a need to increase investment of resources for chronic disease prevention and control, the greater need is for a complete overhaul of the undeveloped traditional medical service system, to ...

The increase in cases of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) will significantly the burden on society and government because handling them requires a short time, large costs, high technology. NCD are not transmitted but deadly result individuals becoming less or productive NCDs can be prevented by controlling risk factors through early detection. Overall, this residency was carried out to provide ...