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Reframing non-communicable diseases [PDF]
The Lancet Global Health, 2017 Proposer de travailler sur les maladies chroniques non-infectieuses comme "maladies socialement transmises" ("socially transmitted conditions") prolonge un lieu commun partage depuis plusieurs decennies en epidemiologie sur le caractere plurifactoriel de ces maladies. Cela ne doit pas empecher de penser que les maladies infectieuses doivent aussi etre
Cavalin, Catherine, Lescoat, Alain
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Combating non-communicable diseases [PDF]
BMJ, 2005 Non-communicable diseases account for most of the global burden of disease. This share is forecast to grow in the decades ahead, particularly in low income and middle income countries.1 In the countries of eastern Europe, chronic non-communicable diseases among people of working age drive high rates of adult mortality.2,3 This obviously concerns the ...
Marquez, Patricio V., Suhrcke, Marc
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Precision Medicine in Non-Communicable Diseases [PDF]
High-Throughput, 2020 The increase in life expectancy during the 20th century ranks as one of society’s greatest achievements, with massive growth in the numbers and proportion of the elderly, virtually occurring in every country of the world. The burden of chronic diseases is one of the main consequences of this phenomenon, severely hampering the quality of life of elderly
Novelli, Giuseppe +5 more
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Renaming non-communicable diseases [PDF]
The Lancet Global Health, 2017 Kozelka, Ellen Elizabeth +1 more
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Vaccines, 2022 This paper is an evaluation of seasonal influenza vaccination hesitancy (IVH) and its determinants among community HCWs in Chongqing, a city in southwest China.
Xianxian Yang +4 more
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Remembering the forgotten non-communicable diseases [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2014 The forthcoming post-Millennium Development Goals era will bring about new challenges in global health. Low- and middle-income countries will have to contend with a dual burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Some of these NCDs, such as neoplasms, COPD, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, cause much health loss worldwide and are ...
Adeera Levin +12 more
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BMJ Open, 2022 Objective This study aims to investigate the prevalence and risk factors of falls among the elderly in Guangdong, China.Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted in six communities of Guangdong province.
Chuan Li +7 more
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Prevention of opportunistic non-communicable diseases [PDF]
International Health, 2019 Abstract As strategies targeting undernutrition and infections become increasingly successful in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a second challenge has appeared, namely premature onset of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In LMICs, NCDs are often related to exposure to undernutrition and infections. As NCDs strike societies and
Maria H Hegelund +2 more
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State of non-communicable diseases in Nepal [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2014 The prevalence of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) is still unknown in Nepal. The Ministry of Health and Population, Government of Nepal has not yet formulated policy regarding NCDs in the absence of evidence based finding. The study aims to find out the hospital based prevalence of NCDs in Nepal, thus directing the concerned authorities at policy ...
Mirak Raj Angdembe +4 more
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Environmental risks and non-communicable diseases [PDF]
BMJ, 2019 Annette Prüss-Ustün and colleagues consider the role of air pollution and other environmental risks in non-communicable diseases and actions to reduce ...
Carlos Dora +10 more
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