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While the pandemic has focused the world’s attention on how to prevent infectious disease, many of the lessons learned from COVID-19 prevention can also be applied to chronic disease prevention.
In 2019, 89,834 people died of diabetes. This number exceeds the capacity of Soccer City, the biggest football stadium in South Africa.
Going back to work at an office? An expert explains how the relatively cool temperature many offices are kept at may affect your body – and your health.
Governments must take urgent action to prevent noncommunicable diseases from becoming an uncontrollable epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxation offers a potential solution.
Without reliable, local and timely data, countries will miss the potential of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation as a public health intervention.
Rwanda's food policies focus on production to make sure people have livelihoods and enough nutritious food. Not much attention is given to overnutrition.
Tension between the government’s economic and public health priorities is preventing stronger fiscal measures to address nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases.
Between 2018 and 2019 Kenya registered a 30% spike in sugar production and an increase in sugar consumption.
To stem the rise in diabetes, new and innovative methods of risk assessment must be implemented, specific to populations on the continent.
The results are in: South Africa’s ground-breaking health promotion levy, introduced in 2018, is working.
A tax on sugar-sweetened beverages may be intended to improve health, but for Indigenous consumers, such a tax would be unethical, contravene tax law and undermine Indigenous rights.
Ghanaian consumption patterns towards fast food are evolving.
Latest meta-analysis shows weight loss is the most important factor in achieving remission.
'One-size-fits-all' weight loss advice could be inadvertently harmful to some patients.
Care for patients with more than one disease is fragmented and uncoordinated. This is can cost patients time, effort and lost wages.
Healthcare providers and governments must recognise the need to invest in diabetes nurse education and training.
The rapid rise in diabetes mustn't be overlooked, as it could have devastating health and economic effects. Most national health systems are already struggling with infectious diseases.
In some cases, women are left without food or anywhere to live for the duration of their pregnancy.
Regular testing can mean potentially fatal diseases can be picked up and treated early.
Top contributors
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Professor (Hon) at Monash University, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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General Manager Diabetes Services, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor, Bond University
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Physical Activity, Lifestyle, and Population Health, University of Sydney
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Clinical Endocrinologist & Associate Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Senior researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Health, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
