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An Introduction to Population-level Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases by Mike Rayner; Kremlin Wickramasinghe; Julianne E Williams; Karen McColl, (Consultant on public health policy); Shanthi Mendis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the single biggest cause of death in the world. They include cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks and stroke, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, like chronic obstructed pulmonary disease and asthma, and diabetes. The World Health Organization published a 'Global Action Plan for the prevention and control of NCDs 2013-2020' which set a target to reduce death rates from NCDs by 25%. In response, countries are drawing up national level NCD prevention policies and programmes. New units have been set by governments, NGOs, and other organisation to drive this agenda forward creating a need for capacity building and training. Until the Nuffield Department for Population Health at the University of Oxford initiated an accredited six-day short course on Prevention Strategies for Non-Communicable Diseases with a population-based approach, many attempts to engage with NCD prevention centred on individual-level interventions, such as screening and treating individual patients. In this new book, the course leaders bring together the entire scope of the population-based approach and provide a solid introduction to the concepts, evidence, and

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Author

Mike Rayner; Kremlin Wickramasinghe; Julianne E Williams; Karen McColl, (Consultant on public health policy); Shanthi Mendis

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198791188

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Social Science, Medicine