This issue of Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) illustrates some of the breadth of work in chronic disease prevention being undertaken throughout the world. The wide range of activity includes health promotion, descriptive epidemiology, behavioral risk-factor surveillance, and purely exploratory and descriptive research. The emphasis of this issue is on efforts being made in economically lessdev...

2010;137;95S-101S Chest Mardi Gomberg-Maitland and Evangelos D. Michelakis Perspective Pulmonary Vascular Disease: The Global Registry: Is It Needed? Is It Feasible? A Global Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/137/6_suppl/95S.full.html services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information ...

Background: The global prevalence and disability of skin subcutaneous diseases have grown annually in recent decades. Large-scale epidemiologic data is useful for better characterization disease to create more impactful sustainable interventions.
 Methods: We assessed multiple trends from 1990 2017 195 countries worldwide through the latest Global Burden Disease Study results 2017.
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The WHO Global Network for Chagas Elimination was launched in July, 2007, to coordinate global eff orts to eliminate this neglected disease in the next 3 years. Jean Jannin, coordinator of the initiative at WHO’s neglected tropical diseases unit (Geneva, Switzerland) told TLID that the target date of 2010 is “perhaps optimistic” but he hopes the project will substantially reduce the global burd...