The Prevention of Global Chronic Disease

Academic Public Health's New Frontier

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ID11038486
AuthorsHenry Greenberg (0000-0002-0719-3728, Henry Greenberg is with the Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, and the Division of Cardiology, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, New York. Susan U. Raymond is with the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and with Changing Our World, New York. Stephen R. Leeder is with the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, and with the Department of Epidemiology,...), Susan U Raymond (0000-0002-4879-7843, Henry Greenberg is with the Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, and the Division of Cardiology, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, New York. Susan U. Raymond is with the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and with Changing Our World, New York. Stephen R. Leeder is with the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, and with the Department of Epidemiology,...), Stephen Leeder (0000-0003-3532-7137, Columbia University), Stephen R Leeder (Henry Greenberg is with the Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, and the Division of Cardiology, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, New York. Susan U. Raymond is with the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and with Changing Our World, New York. Stephen R. Leeder is with the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, and with the Department of Epidemiology,...)
Year2011
Volume101
Issue8
Pages1386-1390
Publication date2011-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2011.300147
PMID21680924
PMCIDPMC3134509
OpenAlexW1992715800
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited23

A confluence of stimuli is propelling academic public health to embrace the prevention of chronic disease in developing countries as its new frontier. These stimuli are a growing recognition of the epidemic, academia's call to reestablish public health as a mover of societal tectonics rather than a handmaiden to medicine's focus on the individual, and the turmoil in the US health system that makes change permissible. To enable graduating professionals to participate in the assault on chronic diseases, schools of public health must allocate budgets and other resources to this effort. The barriers to chronic disease prevention and risk factor modulation are cultural and political; confronting them will require public health to work with a wide variety of disciplines. Chronic disease will likely become the dominant global public health issue soon. In addressing this issue, academia needs to lead, not follow

Disease · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Frontier · Pathology · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Public Health Policies and Education

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