Question

1. In global efforts, the fight to control chronic disease has a low status as a health issue. Why is that?

Answer 1

Chronic disease.

A disease or condition that usually lasts for three months or longer and may worse over time. Chronic disease tends to occur in older adults and can usually be controlled but not cure. Chronic disease persist for a long time. Chronic disease generally can not be prevented by vaccines or cured by medicine, nor do they just disappear. Chronic disease tends to become more common with age.  

Most common chronic diseases examples.

1 Cancer

2. Stroke

3. Cardio vascular disease

4. Obesity

5. Arthritis

6. Asthma

7. Diabetes

8. Alzheimer's diseases

9. Kidney disease

10 Chronic lung disease

Etc.

Prevention of chronic disease

1. Avoid drinking of alcohol  

2. Get regular physical activity. Regular physical activity can help you prevent, delay, or manage chronic disease.

3. Eat healthy. Eating habits help prevent manage chronic disease. A balance diet can help to prevent chronic disease.

4. Quit smoking.

5. Get screened. To prevent chronic disease or catch them early visit your doctor regularly.

6. Get enough sleep.

7. Know your family history.

Global effort to fight chronic disease

World health organization, National Institute of health , and other global organizations are creates global health program to fight chronic disease.

World health organization working on integrated chronic disease prevention and control program (ICP) ,which is one of technical programmes with in the department of chronic disease and health promotion (CHP) includes

1. To promote development of regenal network of national chronic noncommunicable diseases prevention program.

2. To promote development and implementation of national policies and stratgy, program, community based demonstration project for prevention and control of chronic disease with a special focus on developing countries.

3. To raise awareness for chronic noncommunicable disease and ensure that chronic noncommunicable diseases prevention is included in and placed on top of agenda of of health care policies.

4. To promote collaboration and coordination of chronic noncommunicable disease prevention and control activities within and among WHO regions

5. To stimulate training and capacity binding.

6 To develop guidance package for chronic noncommunicable diseases prevention and control.

7. To encourage the dissemination of scientific knowledge, experience, and best practices.

8. To link regional network and international partner with the global forum to promote collaboration for chronic noncommunicable diseases prevention and control.

Health agencies makes various national programmes for control and prevention of chronic disease. All countries should follow national policies and stratgy and programs for control of chronic disease.

We can develop a tracking system. That means we need to provide evidence that these are a problem in developing countries. There needs to be very good quality information on epidemiological situation. Second we need to develop policies that can easily be implemented. For example WHO framework convention on tobacco control the global stratgy on diet and physical activity, the road traffic injury prevention, etc. We have already been able to develop most of these policies. The next challenge is to convince countries they can implement them without compromising other efforts.