Cardiovascular Disease And Global Health: Threat And Opportunity

Cardiovascular Disease And Global Health: Threat And Opportunity -- Greenberg et al., 10.1377/hlthaff.w5.31 -- Health Affairs: "Cardiovascular Disease And Global Health: Threat And Opportunity
Cardiovascular disease is a new problem
for the less developed world to contemplate.

By Henry Greenberg, Susan U. Raymond, and Stephen R. Leeder
ABSTRACT:

The transition in global health from infectious to chronic disease, especially cardiovascular disease, poses a threat to the economies of the less developed world. As a more sophisticated workforce becomes a highly valued and harder-to-replace economic investment, the increasing prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors becomes a threat to economic development. The next two decades offer a critical period for intervention to blunt the impact of these diseases. The response of the global assistance community has been inadequate and without impact. A new global health assistance paradigm is needed to support long-term prevention strategies to combat this epidemic."

Mario Maranhão, Maria Ines Reinert Azambuja and Aloyzio Achutti are working with these authors and other colleagues form India, China, South Africa end Russia in a wider project on the same issue: "Economic Impact of Cardiovascular Diseases in Developing Coutries".
In 2004 a preliminary document "A Race against Time. The Challenge of Cardiovascular Disease in Developing Economies" was published and may be accessed through the hyperlink.