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National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month - Paving the Way towards a Healthier Future
September 6, 2011There are an estimated 23 million obese or overweight children in the United States and this number continues to rise each year. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) the prevalence of childhood obesity has more than tripled since 1980, and the resulting chronic health...
Sep 07, 2011
Defining Essential Health Benefits
(September 2, 2011)  The Institute of Medicine (IOM) will soon produce a report outlining recommendations on the criteria and methods that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could use when defining and updating “essential health benefits” for health plan options under the...
Sep 02, 2011
Chronic disease in the news
August 17, 2011As the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) works to increase awareness of the number one cause of death, disability and rising health care costs, there is increasing urgency in the news media for Americans to address the spectrum of issues contributing to and...
Aug 17, 2011
Shaping the world's health agenda: UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs
By Ashok MalikThis September an event will take place in New York that could define the world’s agenda for the coming decade. I refer, of course, to the high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It takes place in New...
Aug 16, 2011
It Takes a Village
August 10, 2011As our nation’s leaders continue to search for ways to address our financial woes, there are community leaders across the country working to address another looming problem area for Americans: obesity.Two-thirds of adults and nearly one-third of children and teens are currently...
Aug 10, 2011
Health IT Helps Physical and Fiscal Bottom Lines
Because most chronic diseases are highly preventable and frequently manageable it cannot be denied that there is a lot Americans can do to improve their own individual health and ultimately, the overall health of our country. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that eliminating three risk...
Aug 05, 2011
Tracking Chronic Diseases More Effectively
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) last week released “A Nationwide Framework for Surveillance of Cardiovascular and Chronic Lung Diseases” encouraging the construct of a national surveillance system focused on more effectively tracking information related to chronic diseases.  The proposed...
Jul 28, 2011
Impact of NCDs on emerging economies - focus on India
By Ashok MalikJust how much of a threat are non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to emerging economies? Take India, a country where economic change is both endangered by chronic diseases and is also, paradoxically, spurring these.One of the consequences of India’s robust GDP growth in recent years...
Jul 26, 2011
Cultivating Health Improvement
As we grapple with exactly what this health care crisis means to each of us, there is one absolute truth about what most heavily burdens our system: chronic disease.Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States and account for the vast majority of health care...
Jul 20, 2011
Obesity Rates Increase in Sixteen States
A recent report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2011, has found that adult obesity rates rose in sixteen states over the last year and have doubled or nearly doubled in seventeen states since 1995. There was not a decline in any state...
Jul 12, 2011

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