The seven papers in this issue of the Journal highlight a number of wellknown but largely unquantified health issues facing adults in Accra, and by extension, other rapidly growing cities in West Africa. Much is written about the ‘second epidemiological transition’ and the ‘double burden’ of communicable and noncommunicable disease in post-transition populations. Here we present some new popula...

Historically the most important rationale for coercive public health measures has been the prevention of disease and harm to others. As noncommunicable diseases, induced by personal habits, account for higher rates of death and disability, governmental restrictions on individuals are being based on a new argument--social costs. Indirect monetary effects are substituted for direct health effects...

Hypertension becomes a problem in old age, hypertension affect more than 1 bilion people and 13% of total deaths worldwide. The largest disease death from noncommunicable diseases (NCD) or non-communicable is caused by cardiovascular disease. often asymptomatic so it the silent killer main cause onset heart disease, stroke kidney . purpose this community service as an effort to reduce blood pre...

Masoud Khodaveisi, Afsar Omidi, Shima Farokhi, Ali Reza Soltanian. Chronic Diseases (Home Care) Research Center, and Community Health Nursing Department, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran; Community Health Nursing Department, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran; Chronic Diseases (Home Care) Research Center, and Community Health Nursing Department, Hamadan U...

Objective This project aims to fill a growing county-level health data gap through the development of a low-cost, Excel-based surveillance tool. This prototype utilizes emergency department data (ED) collected by NC DETECT, a state-wide syndromic surveillance system, in order to visualize, monitor, and compare annual local health indicators for use in local decision making. In this way, the pro...

The prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is a priority for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Mortality due to NCDs in people aged over 30 years was 1239 per 100 000 in 2009 and the 2014-2020 national strategy includes population-level goals for health promotion and disease prevention. This paper reports a pilot study on the feasibility of implementing components of...