Diabetes and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for over 60% of the world's annual deaths, untold personal suffering, and an economically crippling burden of lost productivity. Despite the body of evidence and various calls to action, historically, the global response has bordered on apathy. Although diabetes and related NCDs remain disproportionately underfunded, the United Natio...

For a long time non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have been a major cause of death and disability worldwide. However, the profile of this health challenge is changing: Having dominated the epidemiologic contour of high-income countries in the 20th century, it is now increasingly affecting the developing regions of our planet. Unless we start implementing measures to reduce the burden of NCDs in ...

background: psychiatric illnesses are an important group of co‑morbidities that can occur among patients with non‑communicable diseases (ncds). both these chronic conditions have an important implication in terms of quality of life, general well-being and cost of treatment and general longevity of the patient. the objectives of our study were to assess the burden of psychiatric co‑morbidities a...

BACKGROUND This paper assesses the burden of non-fatal chronic non-communicable diseases on households in the midst of a paradigm change in Ghana's health policy that shifts healthcare costs to persons and households. METHOD Using data on 4,121 households from the World Health Survey for Ghana 2003, measures of direct and indirect burden of chronic diseases at the household level are construc...

Non-communicable Disease (NCDs) is the high mortality rate in worldwide likely diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, liver and cancers. NCDs prediction model have problems such as redundancy data, missing data, noisy class and irrelevant attribute. This paper proposes a novel NCDs prediction model to improve accuracy. Our model comprises k-means as clustering technique, Weight by SVM as f...

The limited success to date, by the public health community, to address the dramatic rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has prompted growing attention to the commercial determinants of health. This has led to a much needed shift in attention, from metabolic and behavioural risk factors, to the production and consumption of health-harming products by the commercial...

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are a global challenge. During the next several decades, NCDs will govern the health care needs of populations in most lowand middle-income countries because of declines in communicable diseases, conditions related to childbirth and nutrition, changes in lifestyle factors (eg, smoking), and population aging (1). We examined the burden of NCDs in the Hashemite Kin...

Background: Both the older adult population and number of patients with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have rapidly increased in low- middle-income countries recent years. This has added to burden health issues, such as communicable conditions related maternal child health. Results: Approximately 90% premature deaths are due NCDs. Individuals NCDs also more susceptible severe illness or death...

In today's globalized world, rapid urbanization, mechanization of the rural economy, and the activities of trans-national food, drink and tobacco corporations are associated with behavioral changes that increase the risk of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). These changes include less healthy diet, lower physical activity, tobacco smoking and increased alcohol consumption. As a result, p...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate levels of physical activity among physicians in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and to study the possible factors affecting physical inactivity. In addition, the study aims to estimate the prevalence of major non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and a possible correlation between physical inactivity and major NCDs.  Method: A cross-sectional approach was used for this study conducted on...