The UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in September, 2011,
is an unprecedented opportunity to create a sustained global movement against premature …

Chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, and chronic obstructive
respiratory diseases, are neglected globally despite growing awareness of the serious …

Strong leadership from heads of state is needed to meet national commitments to the UN
political declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and to achieve the goal of a 25% …

PURPOSE New approaches to chronic disease management emphasize the need to
improve the delivery of primary care services to meet the needs of chronically ill patients. This …

Purpose Conceptual frameworks for primary care have evolved over the last 40 years, yet
little attention has been paid to the environmental, structural and organizational factors that …

Purpose: Worldwide, at least 190,000 children are blind due to cataract. Although, surgical
intervention is the treatment of choice, in most developing countries the number of children …

Background: No primary practice care model has been shown to be superior in achieving
high-quality primary care. We aimed to identify the organizational characteristics of primary …

Regular physical activity prevents several non-communicable chronic conditions and
premature mortality. The benefits of physical activity can be achieved through active transport, …

Background Built environments have shown to be associated with health, with physical activity
(PA) considered one of the critical pathways for achieving benefits. Navigating available …

BACKGROUND: Interprofessional teams are forming in primary health care. Little is known
about how health care professional roles and routines develop in this environment. …