Confronting health transition
Plenary
- Business, lifestyles, and public health
Parallel sessions
- Management of chronic disease II: adapting health services, engaging communities
- Lancet series on Global Mental Health
- The 2007 Lancet series on Global Mental Health calls for the global health community, governments, donors, multilateral agencies, and other mental health stakeholders to scale up the coverage of services for mental disorders in all countries, especially low and middle income countries.
- Lancet series on chronic diseases
- This 2005 Lancet series on chronic diseases highlights the growing global burden of chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including heart disease, stroke and cancer.
Recommended readings
- Grand challenges in chronic non-communicable diseases
- ( A. S. Daar / Oxford Health Alliance , 2007)
- This briefing paper from Oxford Health Alliance identifies 20 policy and research priorities, or ‘grand challenges’, for chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs). Agreed by a panel drawn ...
- Preventing chronic diseases: a vital investment
- ( World Health Organization , 2005)
- In this report, the World Health Organization (WHO) presents data which shows that 80 per cent of the 35 million premature deaths from chronic diseases (including heart disease, stroke and cancer) dur...
