scholarly journals Online Newspaper Framing of Non-Communicable Diseases: Comparison of Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (15) ◽  
pp. 5593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Chang ◽  
Peter J. Schulz ◽  
Angus Wenghin Cheong
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Metabolic Diseases ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Computational Method ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Stress Burden ◽  
The Way

As non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are now well recognized as the leading cause of mortality among adult populations worldwide, they are also increasingly the focus of media coverage. As such, the objective of this study is to describe the framing of NCDs in the coverage of newspapers, with the understanding that it says something about the society producing it. Automatic content analysis was employed to examine disease topics, risks, and cost consequences, thus providing lay people with a chance of learning the etiology of NCDs and information available for fighting diseases. The result of the computational method identified a total of 152,810 news articles with one of the seven supra-categories of NCDs. The category of metabolic diseases was covered most frequently in the past ten years. Three health risks received ample attention in all 11 newspapers: stress burden, tobacco use, and genetic predispositions. The results evidenced how media framed risk information of illnesses would distort the way in which diseases were selected, interpreted, and the outcome communicated. Future research building on our findings can further examine whether news framing affects the way the readers perceive and prevent NCDs.

Modeling Chronic Diseases in Relation to Risk Factors

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter van Baal ◽  
Hendriek Boshuizen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Simulation Model ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Simulation Modeling ◽  
Disease Modeling ◽  
Healthcare Spending ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
Multiple Chronic Diseases

In most countries, non-communicable diseases have taken over infectious diseases as the most important causes of death. Many non-communicable diseases that were previously lethal diseases have become chronic, and this has changed the healthcare landscape in terms of treatment and prevention options. Currently, a large part of healthcare spending is targeted at curing and caring for the elderly, who have multiple chronic diseases. In this context prevention plays an important role, as there are many risk factors amenable to prevention policies that are related to multiple chronic diseases. This article discusses the use of simulation modeling to better understand the relations between chronic diseases and their risk factors with the aim to inform health policy. Simulation modeling sheds light on important policy questions related to population aging and priority setting. The focus is on the modeling of multiple chronic diseases in the general population and how to consistently model the relations between chronic diseases and their risk factors by combining various data sources. Methodological issues in chronic disease modeling and how these relate to the availability of data are discussed. Here, a distinction is made between (a) issues related to the construction of the epidemiological simulation model and (b) issues related to linking outcomes of the epidemiological simulation model to economic relevant outcomes such as quality of life, healthcare spending and labor market participation. Based on this distinction, several simulation models are discussed that link risk factors to multiple chronic diseases in order to explore how these issues are handled in practice. Recommendations for future research are provided.

scholarly journals Sex Differences in Diet and Cardio-Metabolic Diseases in the Pacific Islands

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Briar McKenzie ◽  
Joseph A. Santos ◽  
Claire Johnson ◽  
Sanne A. E. Peters ◽  
Mark Woodward ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Metabolic Diseases ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
The Pacific

Background: The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasing in low-to middleincomecountries (LMIC), increasing disproportionately for women in LMIC compared to women inhigh income countries. [...]

The Communicability of Non-Communicable Diseases: An Overview of Sociological Contributions to Ideas of Contagion

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-670
Author(s):  
Anette Lykke Hindhede
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
Source Of Infection ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Societal Reaction ◽  
The Individual

There has been a tremendous rise in media coverage and medical research on the rapid increase of so-called non-communicable diseases. Such diseases have apparently reached epidemic proportions worldwide. In this article, I argue for the fruitfulness of investigating the communicable aspect of non-communicable diseases from a distinct sociological view of non-communicable diseases as infectious. I conduct a historical anamnesis of sociological theories that inform contemporary sociological thinking about contagion and/or collective action and the social clustering of (health) behaviour, with a particular focus on the notions of imitation, suggestion, and habitus formation. I argue that the notion of contagion is not only about biology but also about being actualised by lifestyle diseases. Based on the seminal work of Philip Strong on epidemic psychology, I discuss how – in dealing with the present threat to public order – a societal reaction in terms of a profound sense of public alarm and the generation of an outbreak of control strategies has emerged as another powerful epidemic or moral panic challenged by how to isolate the source of ‘infection’. The article concludes by asserting that there still very much remains a divide between the paradigms of the individual and the social in the production of scientific knowledge about these diseases and causality. Considering health-related risk behaviour as a socially organised rather than an individual phenomenon provides more useful data for public health interventions aimed at changing health lifestyles.

scholarly journals Childhood body composition and BMI as a predictor of cardiometabolic non-communicable diseases in adulthood: A systematic review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amela Bander ◽  
Alexia J Murphy-Alford ◽  
Victor O Owino ◽  
Cornelia U Loechl ◽  
Imara Gluning ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Composition ◽  
Child Nutrition ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Skinfold Thickness ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cardiometabolic Health ◽  
Additional Measure ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
Proxy Measure

There is growing evidence that childhood malnutrition is associated with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in adulthood and that body composition mediates some of this association. This review aims to determine: if childhood body composition can be used to predict later-life cardiometabolic NCDs; which measures of body composition best predict future NCDs. Three electronic databases were searched for studies where: children aged under 5 year had body composition measured; cardiometabolic health outcomes were measured a minimum of 10 years later. 29 studies met the inclusion criteria. Though a poor proxy measure of body composition, Body mass index (BMI) was commonly reported (n=28, 97%). 25% of these studies included an additional measure (Ponderal Index or skinfold thickness). Only some studies adjusted for current body size (n=11, 39%). Many studies reported that low infant BMI and high childhood BMI increased the risk of NCD-related outcomes in later life but no conclusions can be made about exact timing of child malnutrition and consequent impact on NCD. Because studies focused on BMI rather than direct measures of body composition, nothing can be said about which measures of body composition in childhood are most useful. Future research on child nutrition and long-term outcomes is urgently needed and should include validated body composition assessments as well as standard anthropometric and BMI measurements.

scholarly journals Complementary Feeding in Developed Countries: The 3 Ws (When, What, and Why?)

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (Suppl. 1) ◽  
pp. 27-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Campoy ◽  
Daniel Campos ◽  
Tomás Cerdó ◽  
Estefanía Diéguez ◽  
José Antonio García-Santos
Keyword(s):  
Breast Milk ◽  
Infant Development ◽  
Complementary Feeding ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases

While a wide knowledge exists on the effects of breast milk or infant formula on growth and infant development, less attention has been paid to the importance of complementary feeding (CF). This review focuses on current recommendations for optimal introduction of CF in healthy full-term European infants and discusses the potential impact of this type of feeding on health outcomes. Overall, exclusive breastfeeding is recommended at least for 4 months and preferable for 6 months, followed by the introduction of CF alongside breast milk; infants’ nutrient requirements must meet the differences between nutrients provided by breast milk and the estimated total needs. There is growing evidence that healthy feeding practices during the CF period have positive short- and long-term effects on optimal growth, body composition, neurodevelopment, healthy food preferences, and gut microbiota composition and function; adequate and healthy CF may also diminish the risk of infections, allergies, type 1 diabetes mellitus, as well as celiac and non-communicable diseases. Following the expert recommendations, the design of nutritional strategies must encourage parents to provide a healthy lifestyle for their offspring. Future research should aim to optimize timing, content, and methods of CF; furthermore, it is necessary to explore future CF-targeted health-promoting strategies in early life (appetite regulation, eating patterns, eating behavior, gut dysbiosis, etc.) to prevent growth/obesity outcomes, immune system related-diseases or non-communicable diseases in later life.

scholarly journals Non-communicable Diseases and Oral Health: An Overview

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Gerhard Wolf ◽  
Maria Grazia Cagetti ◽  
Julian-Marcus Fisher ◽  
Gerhard Konrad Seeberger ◽  
Guglielmo Campus
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Metabolic Diseases ◽  
Oral Care ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Oral Diseases ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
The Impact

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, diabetes, cancer and diseases of the oral cavity such as caries or periodontitis represent a global and highly relevant problem due to demographic and epidemiological changes. NCDs are not only responsible for millions of deaths worldwide, but they cause relevant costs for national economies arise for the health care of societies. Assuming that oral health and general health are directly linked, emerging interactions between systemic and oral diseases are increasingly being researched. Common important risk factors have implications for economic, social, and moral determinants of health. Interdisciplinarity trained oral health professionals are needed to address the excessively high rates of inequities in oral health. The main reason that oral diseases are still a global health problem is related to mainly individual subjective high-risk approaches, which resulting in high costs and low effectiveness. A paradigm shift for a public health approach is needed at population level that integrates different health professionals who deal with NCDs. Oral care, like physical activity, is one of the most important lifestyle-related determinants of health. Widespread recognition of this kind of approach is critical to both reducing the impact of oral and non-oral NCDs. A multi-sectoral, comprehensive and integrated strategy is therefore necessary. The focus should be on social, environmental and population strategies, but should also support individual strategies.

scholarly journals Digital interventions for people living with non-communicable diseases in India: A systematic review of intervention studies and recommendations for future research and development

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 205520761989615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Mahbub Hossain ◽  
Samia Tasnim ◽  
Rachit Sharma ◽  
Abida Sultana ◽  
Araish Farzana Shaik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Intervention Studies ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
Digital Interventions

Background A high burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is contributing to high mortality and morbidity in India. Recent advancements in digital health interventions, including mHealth, eHealth, and telemedicine, have facilitated patient-centered care for NCDs. Objective This systematic review aims to evaluate the current evidence on digital interventions for people living with NCDs in India and the outcomes of those interventions. Methods We adopted PRISMA guidelines and systematically reviewed articles from MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, ERIC, and Scopus databases with following criteria: journal articles presenting digital intervention(s) used by people with at least one of the NCDs, reporting health outcomes following the intervention, studies conducted in India among Indian population. Results Among 1669 articles retrieved from multiple sources, only 13 articles met our criteria. Most ( n = 7) studies were conducted in southern states of India; eight studies included patients with diabetes, followed by neuropsychiatric disorders and other NCDs. Five studies recruited participants from tertiary hospitals; six interventions used text-messaging for delivering health services, and 10 studies reported randomized controlled trials. All the studies reported positive health outcomes following the intervention, including better self-management, increased patient–provider communication, improved medication adherence, and reduced disease symptoms. Most studies scored moderate to high in quality assessment checklist of Downs and Black. Conclusion Current evidence suggests a low number of interventions with positive outcomes. Future research should explore avenues of advanced technologies ensuring equitable and sustainable development of digital health interventions for people living with NCDs in India.

scholarly journals Impact of Mediterranean Diet on Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases and Longevity

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 2028
Author(s):  
Ligia J. Dominguez ◽  
Giovanna Di Bella ◽  
Nicola Veronese ◽  
Mario Barbagallo
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Diet ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Metabolic Diseases ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Mental Condition ◽  
World Population ◽  
Average Life Expectancy ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
Nutrition Research ◽  
The Mediterranean

The average life expectancy of the world population has increased remarkably in the past 150 years and it is still increasing. A long life is a dream of humans since the beginning of time but also a dream is to live it in good physical and mental condition. Nutrition research has focused on recent decades more on food combination patterns than on individual foods/nutrients due to the possible synergistic/antagonistic effects of the components in a dietary model. Various dietary patterns have been associated with health benefits, but the largest body of evidence in the literature is attributable to the traditional dietary habits and lifestyle followed by populations from the Mediterranean region. After the Seven Countries Study, many prospective observational studies and trials in diverse populations reinforced the beneficial effects associated with a higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet in reference to the prevention/management of age-associated non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, depression, respiratory diseases, and fragility fractures. In addition, the Mediterranean diet is ecologically sustainable. Therefore, this immaterial world heritage constitutes a healthy way of eating and living respecting the environment.

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