Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Tackling Africa's chronic disease burden: from the local to the global | de-Graft Aikins et al. Globalization and Health 2010 6 5 http content 6 1 5 GLOBALIZATION yiy AND HEALTH COMMENTARY Open Access Tackling Africa s chronic disease burden from the local to the global Ama de-Graft Aikins 1 Nigel Unwin2 Charles Agyemang3 Pascale Allotey4 Catherine Campbell5 and Daniel Arhinful6 Abstract Africa faces a double burden of infectious and chronic diseases. While infectious diseases still account for at least 69 of deaths on the continent age specific mortality rates from chronic diseases as a whole are actually higher in sub Saharan Africa than in virtually all other regions of the world in both men and women. Over the next ten years the continent is projected to experience the largest increase in death rates from cardiovascular disease cancer respiratory disease and diabetes. African health systems are weak and national investments in healthcare training and service delivery continue to prioritise infectious and parasitic diseases. There is a strong consensus that Africa faces significant challenges in chronic disease research practice and policy. This editorial reviews eight original papers submitted to a Globalization and Health special issue themed Africa s chronic disease burden local and global perspectives . The papers offer new empirical evidence and comprehensive reviews on diabetes in Tanzania sickle cell disease in Nigeria chronic mental illness in rural Ghana HIV AIDS care-giving among children in Kenya and chronic disease interventions in Ghana and Cameroon. Regional and international reviews are offered on cardiovascular risk in Africa comorbidity between infectious and chronic diseases and cardiovascular disease diabetes and established risk factors among populations of sub-Saharan African descent in Europe. We discuss insights from these papers within the contexts of medical psychological community and policy dimensions of chronic disease. There is an urgent need for primary and secondary .
