Ghana's Neglected Chronic Disease Epidemic: a Developmental Challenge

Overview

Journal Ghana Med J

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2008 May 10

PMID 18464903

Citations 51

Authors

Ama de-Graft Aikins

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Abstract

This paper charts a brief history of Ghana's chronic disease burden over the last fifty years, focusing on prevalence, risk and illness experiences. Two arguments are made. First, chronic diseases in Ghana constitute public health and developmental challenges, requiring the same intellectual and financial commitments afforded to communicable and infectious diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. Second, to understand and respond to the multifaceted roots and consequences of chronic diseases, research, interventions and policies have to be informed by multidisciplinary - biomedical and social science - collaborations.

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