Research on health transition in Africa: time for action |
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Authors: | Dermot Maher James Sekajugo |
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Affiliation: | (1) Medical Research Council (MRC)/Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, PO Box 49, Entebbe, Uganda;(2) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK;(3) Ministry of Health, PO Box 7272, Kampala, Uganda |
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Abstract: | With rapidly increasing globalization, trends towards unhealthy diets, obesity, sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy habits are resulting in an increased worldwide burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In Africa this means that health systems face the challenge of an increasing burden of NCDs and of continuing high morbidity and mortality from communicable diseases. This health transition represents an enormous challenge to Africa as the region with the least resources for an effective response. Whereas previous epidemics, including HIV, have caught Africa unprepared, the opportunity now arises to take the advancing wave of health transition in Africa seriously. Health research has a key role to play in meeting health and development goals, and must be responsive to changing disease patterns, such as health transition. There is an urgent need for research on health transition in Africa to enable countries to respond effectively to rapidly changing health needs. |
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