Archive for October, 2011
Shadows of the silent epidemics
Posted by page59 in Epidemiology, Health Policy, Prevention on October 27, 2011
As the UN calls for a global summit on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) here in New York, more than half of the people that die this year in Nepal will die from conditions that our health system never even really bothered to care about. Non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, respiratory diseases, heart diseases and mental diseases […]