Description
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Textbook Of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases: The Health Challenge Of 21St Century by Rajesh Kumar
This book includes a comprehensive review and analysis of the health and economic consequences that the rising trends of noncommunicable diseases bring. This book also underlines the health system and individual behavioral changes which are required to effectively tackle the daunting challenge posed by these diseases to the health and social development in the developing countries.
Key Features
• Designed for medical and public health scholars and professionals to advance their understanding about the distribution, determinates and risk factors, prevention and control strategies including clinical management of major noncommunicable disease (NCD) namely cardiovascular diseases, diabetes chronic respiratory diseases, cancers, childhood obesity and mental health disorders
• Policy makers and program managers who are involved in planning and management of NCD prevention and control programs will gain new insights from it
• Besides NCD epidemiology, clinical care, and prevention, the book includes also the description of global best practices bases on personal experiences, research priorities, NCD link with communicable diseases, as well as primary health care and health system approaches to NCD prevention and control.