International Investment Law and Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention

International law and communicable diseases.

Historically, international law has played a key role in global communicable disease surveillance. Throughout the nineteenth century, international law played a dominant role in harmonizing the inconsistent national quarantine regulations of European nation-states; facilitating the exchange of epidemiological information on infectious diseases; establishing international health organizations; a...

Early-life prevention of non-communicable diseases.

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are major causes of death worldwide and underlie almost two-thirds of all global deaths. Although all countries face epidemics of these diseases, low-income and middleincome countries, and the poorest and most vulnerable populations within them, are aff ected the most. There is a global imperative to create and implement eff ective prevention strategies, because...

Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases: Status and Strategies

Air Pollution and Primordial Prevention of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases

A methodology for the prevention of non-communicable diseases.