Non-communicable diseases (NCD), such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes, are responsible for close to three-quarters of all deaths globally. Understanding the patterns and risk factors of the NCDs is critically important to improve population health. Behavioural risk factors, e.g. unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and harmful use of tobacco and alcohol, that drive NCDs, along with a nexus of macro-level forces (rapid and unplanned urbanization, globalization of unhealthy lifestyles) need to be identified and addressed to prevent and control NCDs.
This edited volume presents a comprehensive account of NCD burden in Bangladesh, identifies the associated risk factors, analyses their patterns and dynamics, and makes recommendations for population health policy interventions. Beyond an editorial chapter focusing on epidemiologic transition in the Low and Middle-Income Countries (including Bangladesh), the boo
Title | Red Alert! |
Author | এম আনিসুল ইসলাম,M Anisul Islam |
Publisher | ইউনিভার্সিটি প্রেস লিমিটেড (UPL) |
ISBN | 9789845064149 |
Edition | 2024 |
Number of Pages | |
Country | Bangladesh |
Language | English, |
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