Rev Panam Salud Publica 30(6), 2011 515 1 Keynote address of the Roundtable on Antimicrobial Resistance, presented to 51st PAHO Directing Council, Washington, D.C., 28 September 2011. 2 Boards on Global Health and African Science Academy Development, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies, Washington, D.C. 20001, United States of America. Send correspondence to: Patrick W. Kelley, pkelle...

Editorials 484 Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are one of the biggest public health challenges of the 21st century. 1 The social and economic impact of NCDs are threatening progress towards sustainable development. NCDs are the leading causes of death, 2 causing 16 million premature deaths annually. 3 Four main groups of noncommunicable diseases – cardiovas-cular diseases, cancers, chronic resp...

While low and middle-income countries have been struggling with communicable diseases for many years, they are now stuck with noncommunicable diseases and road traffic accidents putting them in triple burden. In recent years, non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, mental illnesses, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and cancers have become an emerging pandemic ...

Associations of oral diseases with noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, osteoporosis and chronic renal failure are widely reported in the literature from developed countries. Commonality of risk factors, changes in systemic inflammatory mediators and body metabolism play a role in this association. This paper reviews current knowledge...

Purpose:With the average life expectancy increased globally, incidence of non-communicable diseases, also known as chronic has increased. Therefore, deaths due to these diseases have gradually. In this study, it was aimed make an examination on lifestyle factors affecting cardiovascular which is one noncommunicable diseases. Patients and Methods:To achieve aim, smoking, alcohol use obesity rate...

Masoud Khodaveisi, Afsar Omidi, Shima Farokhi, Ali Reza Soltanian. Chronic Diseases (Home Care) Research Center, and Community Health Nursing Department, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran; Community Health Nursing Department, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran; Chronic Diseases (Home Care) Research Center, and Community Health Nursing Department, Hamadan U...

Noncommunicable diseases, such as cancer, are surpassing infectious diseases as the most pressing health care threat in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs). By 2025, 59% of new cancer cases and 68% of all cancer deaths will occur in LMICs, and health care systems in these countries are struggling to respond to this changing landscape. InBrazil, breast cancer is themost commoncancer and the l...

ABSTRACT: Objective: To estimate the prevalence of fruit and vegetable consumption, practice leisure time physical activity (LTPA) binge drinking for small areas Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Methods: Ecological study conducted with data from Surveillance System Risk Protection Factors Noncommunicable Diseases by Telephone Survey (Sistema de Vigilância Fatores Risco e Proteção para Doenças Crôn...

At the UN High-Level Meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCD) in September 2011, each member state was challenged to create a multisectoral national policy and plan for the prevention and control of non-communicable disease by 2013. Few low-income countries, however, currently have such plans. Their governments are likely to turn for assistance in drafting and implementation to multilateral a...