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“……..In September 2011, the UN will hold its first High-level Meeting of the General
Assembly on chronic non-communicable diseases. The Lancet’s Series of papers
is a contribution to preparations for the September meeting.
These papers cover a range of diseases – cardiovascular, diabetes, cancer, and
chronic obstructive respiratory diseases – and present strategies for substantial health
gains, monitoring, and scaling up of interventions. We also highlight earlier Lancet
Series and provide links through to all of the relevant content. …’
Series Comment :
Chronic diseases: global action must match global evidence
Robert Beaglehole, Richard Horton
Rethinking health-care systems: a focus on chronicity
Pascale Allotey, Daniel D Reidpath, Shajahan Yasin, Carina K Chan,
Ama de-Graft Aikins
Mobilising the world for chronic NCDs
Jean Claude Mbanya, S B Squire, Eduardo Cazap, Pekka Puska
Series Papers
Raising the priority of preventing chronic diseases: a political process
Robert Geneau, David Stuckler, Sylvie Stachenko, Martin McKee, Shah Ebrahim,
Sanjay Basu, Arun Chockalingham, Modi Mwatsama, Rozmin Jamal, Ala Alwan,
Robert Beaglehole
Health, agricultural, and economic effects of adoption of healthy diet
recommendations
Karen Lock, Richard D Smith, Alan D Dangour, Marcus Keogh-Brown,
Gessuir Pigatto, Corinna Hawkes, Regina Mara Fisberg, Zaid Chalabi
Tackling of unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, and obesity: health effects and
cost-effectiveness
Michele Cecchini, Franco Sassi, Jeremy A Lauer, Yong Y Lee, Veronica
Guajardo-Barron, Daniel Chisholm
Prevention and management of chronic disease: a litmus test for health-systems
strengthening in low-income and middle-income countries
Badara Samb, Nina Desai, Sania Nishtar, Shanti Mendis, Henk Bekedam, Anna
Wright, Justine Hsu, Alexandra Martiniuk, Francesca Celletti, Kiran Patel, Fiona
Adshead, Martin McKee, Tim Evans, Ala Alwan, Carissa Etienne
Monitoring and surveillance of chronic non-communicable diseases: progress
and capacity in high-burden countries
Ala Alwan, David R MacLean, Leanne M Riley, Edouard Tursan d’Espaignet, Colin
Douglas Mathers, Gretchen Anna Stevens, Douglas Bettcher
Additional Lancet Series
Chronic diseases and injuries in India
Vikram Patel, Somnath Chatterji, Dan Chisholm, Shah Ebrahim, Gururaj
Gopalakrishna, Colin Mathers, Viswanathan Mohan, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Ravilla D
Ravindran, K Srinath Reddy
Published Jan 11, 2011
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