non-communicable disease

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non-communicable
adjective
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/ˌnɒn.kəˈmjuː.nɪ.kə.bəl/us
/ˌnɑːn.kəˈmjuː.nə.kə.bəl/
that cannot be passed from one person ...
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disease
noun
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/dɪˈziːz/us
/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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Sedentary lifestyles, poor nutrition and obesity are recognized as significant risk factors contributing to the increase innon-communicabledisease.
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Preventing and managing chronic disease through primary health organizations 229 indicates that lifestyle education given to clients diagnosed withnon-communicablediseaseis effective in creating positive lifestyle change.
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Additionally, health classes are taught on personal hygiene, food keeping, housekeeping, and communicable andnon-communicablediseasecontrol.
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These goals are to be achieved through a focus on the areas of reducing non-communicable diseases, health education, adolescent and youth health, and nutrition.
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At the same time, non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes are on the increase.
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The non-communicable diseases are also usually lasting medical conditions but are separated by their non-infectious causes.
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Both initiatives include diabetes in a set of major non-communicable diseases.
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Nutritional education programs were set up in health centers, schools, and women associations to spread awareness of non-communicable diseases and how to prevent them.
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Non-communicable diseases are a long-term effect of floods.
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It conducts interdisciplinary research on locally prevailing communicable and non-communicable diseases.
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Years of life lost, distributed by cause, was 24% from communicable diseases, 55% from non-communicable diseases, and 22% from injuries (2008).
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By spreading health and nutrition awareness, the prevalence of obesity and non-communicable diseases was being addressed.
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The visions included prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, promotion health awareness of the community and establishing a culture of healthy lifestyle.
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Short term implications include mortalities, injuries and diseases, while long term implications include non-communicable diseases and psychosocial health aspects.
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Due to rapidly increasing incomes and changing lifestyles and diet, the levels of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes are an increasing problem.
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Simultaneously, while communicable diseases have historically ranged uppermost as a global health priority, non-communicable diseases and the underlying behavior-related risk factors have been at the bottom.
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He studies communicable and non-communicable diseases on two continents, paying particular attention to how diverse characteristics of individuals, communities, and large populations contribute to diseases distribution.
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The table at right shows the relative seriousness of communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases (e.g., heart disease and cancer) and injuries, in various parts of the world.
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There is now considerable evidence that nutritional imbalances during gestation and lactation are linked to non-communicable diseases, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, and cancer.
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Medical research may involve doing research into public health, biochemistry, clinical research, microbiology, physiology, oncology, surgery and research into many other non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
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