Global strategies to prevent chronic diseases
Beaglehole, R.
SAJCN South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition 18(2): 101-105
2005
DOI: 10.1080/16070658.2005.11734047Document Number: 264926
This paper reaffirms the critical importance of chronic diseases as causes of ill health globally - and especially in low- and middle-income countries - and their potential, and underappreciated, constraint on economic and social development in all countries; emphasizes the unrealized potential for the prevention and control of all major chronic diseases; considers the absence of chronic diseases from the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and how best to align the chronic disease agenda with the MDG agenda; and highlights the importance of operational research to support the implementation of global strategies for the prevention and control of chronic diseases, rather than more epidemiological, clinical or laboratory research.