Of the 2,855 deaths, 1,513 (53%) were attributed to communicable diseases and the remaining 1,342 (47%) to non communicable diseases (NCD).
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is experiencing an increase in the morbi-mortality related to Non Communicable Diseases (NCD).
Their global importance has been growing because they are strongly linked to future non communicable diseases (NCDs) in offspring.
The WHO idea is to restructure our health policy from the singular 20th century focus on combating disease - Communicable and Non-Communicable - to one dedicated to achieving functional ability that will have consequences beyond better health itself to broader societal goals of economic growth.
The World Health Organization expects the number of non-communicable diseases to increase from 36 million in 2008 to 55 million in 2030 unless action is taken.
According to the 2006 World Health Organization studies on the Global Burden of Disease [2], worldwide demographic and epidemiologic shifts now show non-communicable diseases to have become the single largest cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.
Osteoporosis and other bone degenerative diseases are among the most challenging non-communicable diseases to treat.
In addition, there is a need for ongoing health education campaigns which alert people with chronic, non-communicable conditions to the importance of taking their medications as recommended.
We used the 2008 2013 WHO Action Plan for the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases to define NCDs for this study.
With India's economic development, the epidemiology of patients presenting to EDs is shifting from communicable to non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, asthma, and hypertension.
Industrialization and urbanization have been associated with an epidemiological transition, from communicable to non-communicable disease, and a geological transition that is moving the planet beyond the stable Holocene epoch in which human societies have prospered.
