BACKGROUND China and India jointly account for 38% of the world population, so understanding the burden attributed to mental, neurological, and substance use disorders within these two countries is essential. As part of the Lancet/Lancet Psychiatry China-India Mental Health Alliance Series, we aim to provide estimates of the burden of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders for China ...

Y Gayatri Devi1, N Usha Rani2, G Sambasiva Rao3, M Narayana4, B Dileep Kumar4 1Assistant Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Hospital for Chest and Communicable Diseases, Visakhpatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, 2Associate Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Hospital for Chest and Communicable Diseases, Andhra Pradesh, Visakhpatnam, India, 3Professor and Head...

Military service requires individuals who are free from ill-health and who are physically and mentally robust, and throughout history those who have become unfit for service have been discharged on medical grounds. This paper uses published historical records to examine trends in the rate of discharge for six key conditions for the period 1861-1998 and to draw conclusions. In the late 19th and ...

Anxiety and mood disorders are common in the general population in countries around the world. This article provides a review of the recent literature on anxiety and depressive disorders with a focus on linkages with several important viral diseases. Although the majority of studies have been conducted in developed countries such as the United States and Great Britain, some studies have been ca...

the prevalence of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes including obesity has increased over the past few years in iran. the increase in these diseases has been associated with increased urbanization and lifestyle changes. the burden of non-communicable diseases (ncd) is increasing in low and middle-income countries. the aim of this report is to address the threat of ncds ...

background and purpose: surveillance is a system of continuing health checks, is considered as a critical part of public health practice for planning and implantation of effective prevention and control interventions for communicable diseases in the region. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of an active method of data collection on the improvement of these diseases surveillance...

Obesity is the accumulation of excess adipose tissue that affects a person's health and physical psychosocial well-being. The classification based on body mass index, which makes it possible to compare prevalence rates worldwide. overweight have become global epidemic in both developed developing countries. objective this study assess obesity some results showed last two decades, world has more...

Non-communicable diseases contribute significantly to the disease burden within South Africa. In most unequal of societies in world, poverty and socio-economic disparity are amongst greatest obstacles facing Africans, impacting heavily on health care. Adverse socio-environmental factors, especially those experienced during early life, can, through neurobiological epigenetic mechanisms, developm...

OBJECTIVES To investigate if urban Africans displayed lower levels of atheroprotective high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC) when presenting with communicable versus non-communicable forms of heart disease (HD) as both acute infection and chronic inflammation reduce HDLC levels. DESIGN Hospital registry of 5328 de novo cases of HD over a 3-year period. SETTING Cardiology Unit, Baragwa...