Maintaining healthcare for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, diversion of resources to acute care, and physical distancing restrictions markedly affected management NCDs. We aimed assess medication practices in place NCDs second wave pandemic across European countries. In December 2020, Network Advance Best & technoLogy on a...

WPSAR Vol 6, Suppl 1, 2015 | doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.3.HYN_024 www.wpro.who.int/wpsar 18 a Offi ce of the WHO Representative in the Philippines, Sta Cruz, Manila, Philippines. b Region Offi ce 8, Department of Health, Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines. Submitted: 22 September 2015; Published: 6 November 2015 doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.3.HYN_024 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines on 8 November ...

The unparalleled burden of a diverse range of chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global challenge in the 21st century. Chronic low-grade inflammation is a common feature of virtually all NCDs, indicating a central role of the immune system. Furthermore, as the most common and earliest-onset NCD, the epidemic of allergic diseases points to specific vulnerability of the developing...

The 18th WHO Global Tuberculosis Annual Report indicates that there were an estimated 8.6 million incident cases of tuberculosis (TB) in 2012, which included 2.9 million women and 530,000 children. TB caused 1.3 million deaths including 320,000 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected people; three-quarters of deaths occurred in Africa and Southeast Asia. With one-third of the world's popula...

The hope and the promise of the UN Resolution on non-communicable diseases On May 13, 2010, the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution 265, ‘Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases’[1], a major political statement calling for Heads of State to address NCDs in a ‘High Level’ plenary meeting scheduled for September 2011. Out of this meeting, and its associated “outcome docum...

Obesity during childhood is a dominant risk factor for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and is itself considered a disease that needs to be treated. Recently, the growth in childhood obesity in Korea has become stagnant; however, two in every ten children are still overweight. In addition, 60% or more of overweight children have at least one metabolic syndrome risk factor. Thus, childhood obesi...

Pharmaceutical care signifies a shift of practice in pharmacy from being drug product-oriented to the one that is patient-oriented to achieve definite outcomes that improves patients' quality of life. In order to achieve pharmaceutical care, pharmacists have to assume the role of caregiver, communicator, decision-maker, teacher, researcher, life-long learner, leader, and manager, which will hel...

Modernization and subsequent changes in lifestyle have caused a dramatic increase in prevalence of overweight and obesity in China (WHO, 2000; Wu, 2006). Since obesity is one of the main forces driving Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs), increases in prevalence of obesity in children lead to higher incidence of NCDs and reduction in health human capital. I use the China Health and Nutrition Survey...

September 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 9 | e344 The great burden that noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries have on lowincome and middle-income countries is well recognized [1,2]. Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries as a group of middle-income countries are no exception to this neglected epidemic. In this Essay, we review the impact on public health of NCDs and injuries in LAC countr...