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The prevention of global chronic disease: Academic public health's new frontier

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  • Greenberg, H.
  • Raymond, S.U.
  • Leeder, S.R.

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A confluence of stimuli is propelling academic public health to embrace the prevention of chronic disease in developing countries as its new frontier. These stimuli are a growing recognition of the epidemic, academia's call to reestablish public health as a mover of societal tectonics rather than a handmaiden to medicine's focus on the individual, and the turmoil in the US health system that makes change permissible. To enable graduating professionals to participate in the assault on chronic diseases, schools of public health must allocate budgets and other resources to this effort. The barriers to chronic disease prevention and risk factor modulation are cultural and political; confronting them will require public health to work with a wide variety of disciplines. Chronic disease will likely become the dominant global public health issue soon. In addressing this issue, academia needs to lead, not follow.

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  • Greenberg, H. & Raymond, S.U. & Leeder, S.R., 2011. "The prevention of global chronic disease: Academic public health's new frontier," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 101(8), pages 1386-1391.
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    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300147
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    1. Agnes Erzse & Pascal Bovet & Fred Paccaud & Oleg Chestnov & Nicholas Banatvala, 2017. "Building leadership capacity to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases: evaluation of an international short-term training program for program managers from low- and middle-income countries," International Journal of Public Health, Springer;Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), vol. 62(7), pages 747-753, September.
    2. Ciancio, Alberto & Kämpfen, Fabrice & Kohler, Hans-Peter & Kohler, Iliana V., 2021. "Health screening for emerging non-communicable disease burdens among the global poor: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).

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