Consuming a healthy diet throughout the lifecourse helps prevent malnutrition in all its forms as well as a range of Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and conditions. But the increased production of processed food, rapid urbanization and changing lifestyles have led to a shift in dietary patterns. People are now consuming more foods high in energy, fats, free sugars or salt/sodium, and many do n...

The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is an unprecedented public health emergency global concern. Although the measures to contain COVID-19 spreading essential, there are old pandemics that we still fighting and cannot be neglected during current outbreak. Non communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) remain leading cause death worldwide. Indeed, physical inactivity one most important ...

The Brazil, as well the world, is in a transition process, with changes nutritional, epidemiological and lifestyle profiles. At same time, progressive increase life expectancy growth of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have been observed recent decades. Among them are cardiovascular whose main risk factor obesity. In this scenario, anthropometric indicators essential for early identific...

Gamping Kidul Hamlet is growing fast and an education center area. This condition brings social, economic unhealthy lifestyle changes so that there concern will be increase in non-communicable diseases (NCDs). community service a continuation of the previous program which has formed groups concerned with healthy lifestyles training screening prevention NCDs. The aims to enable health cadres abl...

OBJECTIVE This paper reflected on the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes in Bangladesh, which is spreading rapidly in low-income countries. The rationale of constructing more health centers for addressing NCDs was assessed in this paper by determining the relationship between prevalence of NCDs, particularly hypertension and diabetes, and distance to health facilities. METHODS From BDHS ...

The 21st century is an era of great challenge for humankind; we are combating terrorism, climate change, poverty, human rights issues and last but not least non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The burden of the latter has become so large that it is being recognized by world leaders globally as an area that it is in need of much greater attention. In light of this concern, the World Health Organiz...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading health problem globally and generate high numbers of premature deaths and loss of quality of life. The aim here was to describe the major groups of causes of death due to NCDs and the ranking of the leading causes of premature death between 1990 and 2015, according to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2015 study estimates f...

OBJECTIVES We hypothesise that rising prevalence rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) increase infection risk and worsen outcomes among socially disadvantaged Indigenous Australians undergoing a rapid epidemiological transition. DESIGN Available pathology, imaging and discharge morbidity codes were retrospectively reviewed for a period of 5 years prior to admission with a bloodstream inf...

the second half of the twentieth century witnessed major health transitions in the world, propelled by socio-economic and technological changes which profoundly altered life expectancy and ways of living while creating an unprecedented human capacity to use science to both prolong and enhance life. dietary deficits and excesses and the lifestyle changes that accompany industrialization and urba...

April 2005, Vol. 95, No. 4 SAMJ HIV/AIDS continues to ravage sub-Saharan Africa, and in South Africa accounts for 30% of all mortality, making it the leading cause of death. 1 The epidemic has had other negative effects, which have not been fully realised. Among these is the fact that, paradoxically, the awareness programmes implemented to prevent major spread of HIV/AIDS have complicated the p...