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Estimating and Monitoring the Burden of Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases in Ghana (2021)

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In Ghana, there is evidence showing that chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are emerging conditions and many studies have made this claim. This assertion is based on epidemiological transition theory which posits that, as a society modernises, the pattern of disease shifts from infectious to chronic non-communicable diseases. But is there a transition going on in Ghana or are studies making this claim trying to fit their data into the epidemiological transition model? To what extent can we say that the patterns of disease have changed in Ghana considering the weak nature of disease surveillance in the country? The focus of

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Authors & Contributors
Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui
Vaughan, Megan
Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove Agyepoma
Hart, Jennifer
LaBonte, Michelle Lynne
Romanienko, Lisiunia A.
Concepts
Chronic diseases
Epidemiological transition (public health)
Non-communicable diseases
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Philosophy of medicine
Global health
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Ghana
Africa
India
Africa, Sub-Sahara
Kenya
Kerala (India)
Institutions
Ghana Atomic Energy Commission
World Health Organization (WHO)
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
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