Has There Been Adequate Progress in Addressing the NCD Epidemic in LMIC?

Comprehensive strategies for the successful prevention and control of the noncommunicable disease (NCD) epidemic need to encompass laws and regulations, tax and  price interventions, improvement of the built environment, advocacy, mass media, community- and workplace-based interventions, risk screening, and clinical interventions [1]. Such strategies create an enabling environment that facilitates the adoption and maintenance of healthy behaviors, promotes early detection and management of NCD victims and those at high risk, helps avert the acquisition and augmentation of NCD risk in the population as a whole, and reduces premature mortality and morbidity burden in the segment of the population at high risk of NCD [2,3].
Source: CVD Prevention and Control - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Viewpoint Source Type: research