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

Sanuade, Olutobi (Author)

UCL Press
Pages: 212-230
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

URI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv14t4769.13

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Medical statistics Epidemiological transition (public health) Chronic diseases Non-communicable diseases 20th century 21st century Ghana

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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