Chronic Disease in Low-Resource Settings – Prevention and Management throughout the Continuum of Care
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Disease Prevention".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (3 April 2023) | Viewed by 2225
Special Issue Editors
2. Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Division of Orthopaedics, Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 8000, South Africa
Interests: non-communicable disease management and prevention; rehabilitation; integrated care; implementation science; global health; low-resource settings
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The burden of non-communicable disease (NCDs) is increasing rapidly, disproportionally affecting those structurally exposed to adverse social determinants of health (in both high-income and low-to-middle-income countries). Moreover, in many settings, the burden of NCDs is colliding with a high burden of other chronic disease or disease with chronic sequalae including communicable disease (e.g., HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis), trauma, and maternal conditions (i.e., the quadruple burden of disease). Low-resource settings are characterized by a complex interaction of multiple resource constraints throughout the continuum of care, ranging from personal factors, interpersonal factors, community structures, health system resources and governance, as well as factors related to the built- and natural environment. Addressing the burden of chronic disease in low-resource settings (and multimorbidity alike) inclusively (i.e., reach), effectively, with adequate adoption, implementation, and maintenance (RE-AIM) requires a new or rejuvenated wave of high-quality research. Crucially, such research builds on local knowledge yet facilitates global learning.
Therefore, this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on contextual strategies (or research in support of development/prioritizing such strategies) to reduce the burden of chronic disease in low-resource settings globally. Herein, we promote the value of local knowledge and innovation that is imperative to the effective implementation of such strategies locally yet present important teachings globally. We encourage manuscript submissions across the continuum of care, from primary prevention, detection, management, and secondary prevention strategies (including health promotion and rehabilitation). Here are some examples of topics that could be addressed in this Special Issue:
- Pragmatic public health strategies that address common NCD risk factors (e.g., physical activity);
- Non-healthcare interventions to reduce NCD risk (e.g., built environment, planetary health);
- Reducing NCD risk through early-life (e.g., adolescents) interventions;
- Contextual strategies for addressing multimorbidity, including the interactions between NCDs and communicable disease, as well as challenges related to mental health;
- Population-level situational analysis (e.g., work force) to inform chronic disease priority setting;
- Strategies to mitigate the impact of chronic disease on functioning, activity, and participation, including health promotion and rehabilitation;
- Neglected chronic diseases relevant to local contexts;
- Scale-up of effective NCD detection and management strategies.
Dr. Martin Heine
Dr. Susan Hanekom
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- non-communicable disease
- multimorbidity
- low-resourced settings
- social determinants of health
- public health
- health promotion
- integrated care
- rehabilitation
- global health
- implementation science
