This paper charts a brief history of Ghana's chronic disease burden over the last fifty years, focusing on prevalence, risk and illness experiences. Two arguments are made. First, chronic diseases in Ghana constitute public health and developmental challenges, requiring the same intellectual and financial commitments afforded to communicable and infectious diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS....

Obesity is a complex and multifaceted public health problem. This commentary reflects on a new theoretical model of obesity (i.e. Homeostatic Theory of Obesity proposed by Marks), and calls for additional research to examine biopsychosocial factors that may be of importance in developing interventions that promote long-term maintenance of weight loss and in developing obesity prevention program...

In this article we describe global cardiovascular risk factor trends in women, both physiological and behavioral, in order to improve the understanding of cardiovascular health of women. Our aim in presenting this information is to inform interventions and policies to improve the cardiovascular health of women. Although differences are apparent between developing and developed countries, a rang...

Therapists often use a generic solution to treat a multifaceted problem in cases of domestic violence and stalking by law enforcement officers. This paper presents a cognitive model of social information processing for the purpose of helping clinicians decipher the intrapersonal level of this problem. This paper also reviews the decoding, decision-making, and enactment phases of cognitive proce...

By using an ecological framework, this article provides a review of common barriers to healthful eating and being physically active. The barriers are described within the four levels (intrapersonal, interpersonal, community/institution, and macro/public policy) of an ecological model highlighting the need for multifaceted approaches to overcome these barriers. Examples of how Extension professi...

background;it is important to know media and educational intervention and also produce them according to standards. thus, media and health educational interventions should evaluate to improve education quality. methods;the study sample were whole produced media and interventions in all medical universities, deportments, offices, and centers affiliated to ministry of health in 2008 and in the fi...

Sexually transmitted infections other than HIV are important global health issues. They have, however, been neglected as a public-health priority and control eff orts continue to fail. Sexually transmitted infections, by their nature, aff ect individuals, who are part of partnerships and larger sexual networks, and in turn populations. We propose a framework of individual, partnership, and popu...