Background Vietnam’s network of commune health centers (CHCs) have historically managed acute infectious diseases and implemented national disease-specific vertical programs. Vietnam has undergone an epidemiological transition towards non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Limited data exist on Vietnamese CHC capacity to prevent, diagnose, and treat NCDs. In this paper, we assess NCD service r...

BACKGROUND The Global Public Private Partnerships for Health (GPPPH) constitute an increasingly central part of the global health architecture and carry both financial and normative power. Gender is an important determinant of health status, influencing differences in exposure to health determinants, health behaviours, and the response of the health system. We identified 18 GPPPH - defined as g...

background: metabolic syndrome is a common metabolic disorder, which leads to early cardio vascular disease and diabetes type ii. the goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its risk factors in kurdistan, iran. method: the data was extracted from provincial section of iranian national non-communicable surveillance survey conducted in 2005. the study was a po...

BACKGROUND Although the large majority of persons with diabetes and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) lives and dies in low- and middle-income countries, the prevention and treatment of diabetes and other NCDs is widely neglected in these areas. A contributing reason may be that, unlike the impacts of acute and communicable diseases, the demands on resources imposed by diabetes is not supe...

BACKGROUND The probable coexistence of two or more epidemiological profiles in urban Africa is poorly documented. In particular, very few studies have focused on the comparison of cause-specific mortality between two types of neighborhoods that characterize contemporary southern cities: formal neighborhoods, that is, structured or delineated settlements (planned estates) that have full access t...

Early and decisive measures successfully prevented an outbreak of COVID-19 in Nauru, as January 2022 there have been no cases on the island. Strong pandemic policy supported economy, which continued to expand FY20 FY21. Nauru’s remoteness size constrain potential growth it is severely exposed negative effects climate change sea levels ocean stock tuna. Development challenges are exacerbated by ...

Objective: The Objective of the study was to assess risk factors non-communicable diseases (NCDs) using community based assessment checklist (CBAC) form among Kashmiri adults. Methods: This a cross sectional conducted in field practice area department medicine, Government medical college Srinagar over period 3 months. Results: Among total 601, 212 (34.7%) were found have high and 398 (65.2%) lo...

Background A health system that provides equitable health care is a principal goal in many countries. Measuring horizontal inequity (HI) in health care utilization is important to develop appropriate and equitable public policies, especially policies related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Design A cross-sectional survey of 1,211 randomly selected households in slum and non-slum areas was ...

Public health in sub-Saharan African countries is experiencing a double burden of diseases. First, for decades, these have been struggling against infectious Second, the demographic transition area leading to rising prevalence non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Unfortunately, systems Africa are vulnerable, under-resourced, and unable address public issues. Furthermore, protracted political insta...

The report written by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016 presents an extensive assessment to show how improvement of environment can promote health and well-being. awareness many diseases could be avoided focusing on environmental risk factors would give a boost global efforts preventive health. results obtained quantitative analysis burden attributable environment, confirm that 24% de...