Cardiovascular Disease And Global Health: Threat And Opportunity -- Greenberg et al., 10.1377/hlthaff.w5.31 -- Health Affairs

Cardiovascular Disease And Global Health: Threat And Opportunity -- Greenberg et al., 10.1377/hlthaff.w5.31 -- Health Affairs
Cardiovascular Disease And Global Health: Threat And Opportunity
Cardiovascular disease is a new problem for the less developed world to contemplate.
by Henry Greenberg, Susan U. Raymond, and Stephen R. Leeder
ABSTRACT: The transition in global health from infectious to chronic disease, especially cardiovascular disease, poses a threat to the economies of the less developed world. As a more sophisticated workforce becomes a highly valued and harder-to-replace economic investment, the increasing prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors becomes a threat to economic development. The next two decades offer a critical period for intervention to blunt the impact of these diseases. The response of the global assistance community has been inadequate and without impact. A new global health assistance paradigm is needed to support long-term prevention strategies to combat this epidemic.