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How politics, commerce and science complicated the fight against a “silent epidemic”
In a globalized world, problems tend to involve more than one issue. In the case of non-communicable diseases, a constellation of political, commercial and scientific issues play in to the fight against these terrible diseases. Communicable diseases are the past; it is time for innovation. Read more
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Non-communicable Diseases – A race against time
Here the case of South Africa serves an example of the “race against time” represented by NCDs, either they start preventing, or the economic and social costs will become unaffordable in the next years. Read more
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First Global Ministerial Conference on Healthy Lifestyles and Noncommunicable Disease Control
At the First Global Ministerial Conference (Moscow, 28-29 April 2011), a paper with some recommendations and a rough idea of the situation was presented. When dealing with finding solutions, here you can find some of the proposals to support your original ideas. Read more
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Jamie Oliver rallies United Nations for aid in his anti-obesity campaign
“Naked Chef” Jamie Oliver took advantage of the high-level meeting in September 2011 to promote his campaign on the Internet asking for help in the fight against obesity. According to him it is all about informing the people and helping them to make the right choices. Read more
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Global Health Observatory, database of non-communicable diseases
All the information necessary about NCDs given in numbers is here at the Global Health Observatory. Feel free to use the maps to compare the situation in different places all around the world, and to notice that, even though the problem affects us in different degrees, it is widely important […]