Non-Communicable Diseases

On this weeks episode, we are joined by Jordan Jarvis of the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network (YP-CDN) to discuss the growing burden of Non-Communicable Disease and the latest WHO status report on the issue.

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[KrisRonsin]

We are glad you enjoyed it! Non-Communicaable diseases have been an issue for a long time and are only becoming a greater issue because they have gone somewhat unaddressed until recently.  The WHO Status Report released in January of this year helped show what a collective effort the world is trying to make in resolving the burden.  It was fantastic to have Jordan Jarvis on the show- she is a wealth of knowledge and does wonderful work with YP-CDN (Check out their google+ and YouTube pages as well!)

[kosalaimohan]

Great overview on NCD. Will look forward to hear more on NCD..

[Prija]

I work as District Public Health Specialist in NCD, India. Its funny that India is the most affected country and yet the program is not rolled out all over India. Its still run as pilot program. We are able to provide medicines to only 10 % of the patients and that too only for 6 months maximum.As happened with MDGs, I wonder if we will be able to achieve anything by 2025. I have been part of the workshop for that framework and guess what, the state has not made formats for reporting reflecting those indiactors (So we are not even measuring where we are...)

[ShivaRajMishraWDCNepalSRM]

I have the opportunity to review in brief, the burden of non communicable diseases in Nepal. The full report is published in Globalization Health, and findings were staggering with 8, 000-10, 000 cancer deaths annually, and hypertension (22.4%-38.6%), diabetes (4.1%-9.5%) and several other substantially high NCDs, not to mention the quality of studies that reported these findings were very low. Having had to deal with communicable diseases, large efforts in sustaining maternal and child health, budget priorities are not in NCDs. However, Nepal's government is initiating steps in NCDs control with preparation of NCD control plan recently, but progress into putting that into action remains frustrating. I would be really interested to bring more discussion into, NCDs issue from developing countries perspective.

[KrisRonsin]

Check out the latest from TWiGH- Non Communicable Diseases and the WHO Global Action Plan status Report + Jordan Jarvis of YP-CDN!

[dunkindonutmaster_]

I don't know how I got here from listening to a 50 cent playlist.