Chronic Diseases Burden and Risk Factors: What Policy Makers Need to Know?
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 11537
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health policy; spatial statistics; disease burden
Interests: health policy; primary care quality; human capital
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a Special Issue on Chronic Diseases Burden and Risk Factors in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
Chronic diseases are the largest cause of death in the world, and smoking, harmful alcohol use, poor nutrition and physical inactivity are causing a massive increase in these diseases, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, cancer and diabetes. The global economic burden of these illnesses is staggering. According to the World Economic Forum, treating NCDs will cost the world USD 30 trillion by 2030. Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) provides a rules-based synthesis of the available evidence to quantify health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, allowing policy makers to understand how the chronic burden challenges are shifting over time. In addition to GBD, global researchers have also explored the burden of specific chronic diseases in their countries from national and state perspectives.
Despite growing evidence of the epidemiological and economic impact of these diseases, the global response remains inadequate, and up-to-date evidence related to the nature of the burden of chronic diseases is not in the hands of decision makers. Many believe that chronic diseases afflict only the affluent and the elderly, that they arise solely from freely acquired risks, and that their control is both costly and ineffective and should wait until infectious diseases have been addressed. Policy makers need to be fully informed of the burden and risk factors of chronic diseases. Clearer messages on chronic disease burden and the implications are needed, and the advocacy base must be expanded.
This Special Issue is open to any subject area related to the disease burden of chronic diseases, the interaction of COVID-19 with the continued global rise in chronic illness and the forecasts of chronic disease burden in the future. Please see the listed keywords for examples of some of the many possible topics.
We are looking forward to your contribution to this Special Issue.
Dr. Bin Zhu
Dr. Chih-Wei Hsieh
Dr. Hao Xue
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- chronic diseases
- burden of diseases
- burden of cancers
- risk factors
- policy makers
- prevalence
- incidence
- DALY
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