ANT345H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Non-Communicable Disease, Sub-Saharan Africa, Cardiovascular Disease
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Non-communicable are of immense and growing importance worldwide. Nc diseases is greater than the burden of comm. Diseases in low and middle income countries, as well as high income countries. This contradicts the widely held nothion that low incomes countries do not face a significant burden of noncommunicable disease. Moreover, the budrden of nc diseases in low and middle income countries as they deveop economically, become more intergrated witht the global economy, urbanize, and age. The risk factors for nc disease realte in significant ways to lifestyle, much of which is within ppl"s control. Some nc disease can be prevented at relatively low cost, but these diseases are often very expensive to treat. Communicable diseases are illness caused by an infectious agent that spreads from a person or an animal to another person or animal. Non-communicable disease are, in many respects, the opposite. They can be spread from person to person.
