Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá, Sumegha Asthana, Cristián Montenegro, Renzo Guinto et al.
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19AU : PleasenotethatCOVID 19hasbeendefinedasCoro ) pandemic, the Black Lives Matter and Women in Global Health movements, and ongoing calls to decolonise global health have all created space for uncomfortable but important conversations that reveal serious asymme...
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Helen Clark
Krishna Palipudi, Prakash C. Gupta, Dhirendra Narain Sinha, Linda J. Andes et al.
BACKGROUND: Tobacco use has been identified as the single biggest cause of inequality in morbidity. The objective of this study is to examine the role of social determinants on current tobacco use in thirteen low-and-middle income countries. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We used nationally represe...
Adrianna Murphy, Benjamin Palafox, Marjan Walli-Attaei, Timothy Powell‐Jackson et al.
Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death globally. In 2014, the United Nations committed to reducing premature mortality from NCDs, including by reducing the burden of healthcare costs. Since 2014, the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) Study has been ...
Michael Marmot
Walk the slums of Dhaka, in Bangladesh, or Accra, in Ghana, and it is not difficult to see how the urban environment of poor countries could be responsible for bad health. Walk north from Manhattan's museum district to Harlem, or east from London's financial district to its old East End, and you wil...
Marjan Walli-Attaei, Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee, Scott A. Lear et al.
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is considered the most important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, but its control is poor worldwide. We aimed to assess the availability and affordability of blood pressure-lowering medicines, and the association with use of these medicines and blood pressure control...
Nazmus Saquib, Juliann Saquib, Tahmeed Ahmed, Masuma Akter Khanam et al.
BACKGROUND: Belief is that chronic disease prevalence is rising in Bangladesh since death from them has increased. We reviewed published cardiovascular (CVD) and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) studies between 1995 and 2010 and conducted a meta-analysis of disease prevalence. METHODS: A systematic s...
Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Pranil Man Singh Pradhan, Imtiyaz Ali Mir, Shwe Sin
BACKGROUND: In South and Southeast Asian countries, tobacco is consumed in diverse forms, and smoking among women is very low. We aimed to provide national estimates of prevalence and social determinants of smoking and smokeless tobacco use among men and women separately. METHODS: Data from Demograp...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Timothy Evans, Hilary Standing, Simeen Mahmud
How do we explain the paradox that Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in health and human development, yet its achievements have taken place within a health system that is frequently characterised as weak, in terms of inadequate physical and human infrastructure and logistics, and low performin...
Jagdish Kaur, Daksh Jain
Tobacco use is a major public health challenge in India with 275 million adults consuming different tobacco products. Government of India has taken various initiatives for tobacco control in the country. Besides enacting comprehensive tobacco control legislation (COTPA, 2003), India was among the fi...
Thomas A. Gaziano, Shafika Abrahams‐Gessel, Catalina A. Denman, Carlos Mendoza Montano et al.
BackgroundCardiovascular disease contributes substantially to the non-communicable disease (NCD) burden in low-income and middle-income countries, which also often have substantial health personnel shortages. In this observational study we investigated whether community health workers could do commu...
Riaz Uddin, Eun‐Young Lee, Shanchita R. Khan, Mark S. Tremblay et al.
The precursors of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are often manifested during childhood and adolescence with little knowledge about co-occurrence of their related lifestyle risk factors. To address this deficit, we estimated the prevalence and clustering of six major NCD-risk factors in adolescents...
World Bank
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Curbing the epidemicGovernments and the economics of tobacco controlAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-4519-2SectionsAboutPDF (0.6 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Be...
Dinesh Neupane, Craig S. McLachlan, Rajan Sharma, Bishal Gyawali et al.
Hypertension is a leading attributable risk factor for mortality in South Asia. However, a systematic review on prevalence and risk factors for hypertension in the region of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has not carried out before.The study was conducted according to t...
Uday Narayan Yadav, Binod Rayamajhee, Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Shradha S. Parsekar et al.
The global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly affected the lives of people living with non-communicable diseases (PLWNCDs). The health of PLWNCDs worsens when synergistic epidemics or "syndemics" occur due to the interaction between socioecological and biological factors, resulting ...