Communicable disease control in Afghanistan
Global Public Health, 2013 Among public health challenges in Afghanistan, communicable diseases still predominate because the epidemiologic transition to chronic disease has not yet occurred. Afghanistan's 10-year journey to improve its response to communicable disease is reflected in varying degrees of progress and innovation, all while long-standing conflict and geographic ...
Mohammad S, Ikram +7 more
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Implementation status of non-communicable disease control program at primary health care level in Bangladesh: Findings from a qualitative research. [PDF]
Public Health Pract (Oxf), 2022 Objective Bangladesh has 67% of estimated deaths caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The country aimed to reduce NCD-related premature deaths by one-third by 2030.
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Stakeholder perceptions of current practices and challenges in priority setting for non-communicable disease control in Kenya: a qualitative study. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2021 Objective To explore the stakeholders’ perceptions of current practices and challenges in priority setting for non-communicable disease (NCD) control in Kenya.
Wanjau MN +3 more
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Community engagement interventions for communicable disease control in low- and lower- middle-income countries: evidence from a review of systematic reviews. [PDF]
Int J Equity Health, 2020 Background Community engagement (CE) interventions include a range of approaches to involve communities in the improvement of their health and wellbeing.
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The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 2022 Summary This study aims to review China's national policies related to non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and control at the primary health care (PHC) level since China's 2009 health system reform.
S. Xiong +13 more
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Dynamics of non-communicable disease prevention, diagnosis and control in Lebanon, a fragile setting
Conflict and Health, 2021 Background Non-communicable diseases (NCD) present an increasing global health challenge, particularly for settings affected by fragility where access to care may be disrupted, and where high-quality continuous care delivery is difficult to achieve. This
Nadine Zablith +6 more
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Using Social Networking Sites for Communicable Disease Control: Innovative Contact Tracing or Breach of Confidentiality? [PDF]
Public Health Ethics, 2014 Social media applications such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have attained huge popularity, with more than three billion people and organizations predicted to have a social networking account by 2015.
Mandeville KL +4 more
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Lancet Public Health, 2023 The WHO Global Oral Health Status Report, published in 2022, highlighted the alarming state of oral health worldwide and called for urgent action by integrating oral health into non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and universal health coverage initiatives ...
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BMJ Open, 2020 Background/objective The increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Nepal underscores the importance of strengthening primary healthcare systems to deliver efficient care. In this study, we examined the barriers and facilitators to engaging
Lal B. Rawal +7 more
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Understanding dental caries as a non-communicable disease
British Dental Journal, 2021 The recent developments in the science underpinning our knowledge of both the initiation of dental caries and the subsequent behaviour of lesions over time gives us a solid base to understand caries differently.
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