a Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. b Retired, Lomé, Togo. c Department of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Delhi, India. d Retired, Crozet, France. e Retired, Mangalore, India. f National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Rajahmundry, India. g Epidemiology and Social M...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the paper was to outline the chronic non-communicable disease burden of older adults and predict the odds of living with a chronic non-communicable disease in Ghana. DESIGN The paper utilized descriptive and analytical statistical methods to assess the level of chronic noncommunicable diseases among older adults. SETTING Data from the Study on Global Ageing and Ad...

OBJECTIVE To describe prevalence and the distribution of risk factors to non-communicable chronic diseases among adults from Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil. METHODS Probabilistic sample of adult urban population, of both genders and aged from 20 to 59 years old was interviewed (n=2022). The sample process was made through conglomerates. It was applied a structured questionnaire with questions ...

BACKGROUND Communicable disease surveillance is to have baseline data which will be helpful for planning and also for identifying epidemics under non-evident conditions. OBJECTIVE To delineate the pattern of occurrence of communicable diseases so as to enable early identification, followed by appropriate and timely response to outbreaks. MATERIALS AND METHODS Reports of listed communicable ...

Dengue is a notifiable communicable disease in Sri Lanka since 1996. Dengue fever spread rapidly among people living in most of the districts of Sri Lanka. The present notification system of dengue communicable diseases which is enforced by law is a passive surveillance system carried out by the public health care professionals. The present notification of communicable disease system is manual,...

BACKGROUND In most health authorities in the UK, general public health physicians provide out-of-hours cover for specialists in communicable disease control. Although communicable disease control was part of their specialist training, there is no current formal mechanism to enable these doctors to keep up to date. The Faculty of Public Health Medicine has an active Continuing Professional Devel...

Hereditary diseases and congenital malformations have been reported to affect 2-5% of all live births. Available evidence suggests that genetic disorders are equally important also in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Considerable achievements have been made over the last two decades in controlling communicable diseases in the region. Concurrently, there has been a mounting awarene...

The 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study points to a changing landscape in which non-communicable diseases, such as mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders, account for an increasing proportion of premature mortality and disability globally. Despite evidence of the need for care, a remarkable deficit of providers for MNS disorder service delivery persists in sub-Saharan Africa. T...

delwal S, et al. The mental health country profile: background, design and use of a systematic method of appraisal. The International Consortium on Mental Health Policy and Services: objectives, design and project implementation. Int Rev Psychiatry 2004;16:31-47. 6 Tomov T, Mladenova M, Lazarova I, Sotirov V, Okoliyski M. Bulgaria mental health country profile. Int Rev Psychiatry 2004;16:93-106...