The health problems that have long plagued people in the West — heart disease, diabetes, cancer — are on the rise globally. Yale researchers examine the growing problem of chronic disease in poor countries in the September issue of the journal Health Affairs.
“There are major transitions underway in the epidemiology of disease throughout the world from communicable to chronic disease,” says Dr. Jeremy I. Schwartz, assistant professor of general medicine and senior author of a research paper focusing on the East Africa region. But “in poorer countries, such as those of East Africa, there are major gaps in funding and policy needed to make substantive change to prevent and deal with this burden.”
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