EPIDEMIOLOGY OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

Non-Communicable Disease Mortality among a Sample of Older People in Iran from 2007 to 2018

Introduction: Increasing age is one of the most important predictors of mortality among aged population. Therefore, determining the causes of death among older people could be imperative. The purpose of this study was to investigate non-communicable disease mortality among a sample of older people in Iran from 2007 to 2018. Methods: This was a retrospective descriptive study that applied censu...

The spatial epidemiology of asthma: a chronic non-communicable disease and a neglected epidemic

© 2014 Kameel et al; licensee Herbert Publications Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0). This permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction It is estimated that about 300 million individuals of all ag...

Alcohol consumption and non-communicable diseases: epidemiology and policy implications.

AIMS This paper summarizes the relationships between different patterns of alcohol consumption and various on non-communicable disease (NCD) outcomes and estimates the percentage of NCD burden that is attributable to alcohol. METHODS A narrative review, based on published meta-analyses of alcohol consumption-disease relations, together with an examination of the Comparative Risk Assessment es...

Financing national non-communicable disease responses

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) (also known as socially transmitted diseases) were conspicuously absent from the Millennium Development Goals and seemed to miss out on the 'golden years' of health funding despite causing more death and disability than any other disease group worldwide. The share of 'development assistance for health' dedicated to NCDs has remained at 1-2% of the total since 20...

Non-communicable disease surveillance and population surveys.