Non-communicable diseases a substantial challenge for Bangladesh

A newly developed scorecard by an international group including icddr,b shows Bangladesh performs poorly in reducing non-communicable disease.
The Lancet recently  published findings of a new scorecard, measuring the performance of 23 countries in reducing their burden of non-communicable diseases.
The scorecard results show that many countries including Bangladesh are yet to establish needed actions to reduce deaths and disability from non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer and chronic lung disease.   
Grand South—a global network of 11 research centres including icddr,b—developed the scorecard as a tool to monitor and help improve the performance of countries with high non-communicable disease burden. The scorecard was developed as a result of a United Nations political declaration after a high level meeting in 2011 that committed countries to actions that would help prevent and control non-communicable diseases.
Non-communicable diseases are responsible for half of Bangladesh’s annual mortality and account for 61% of the country’s disease burden.
The scorecard identifies Bangladesh's low performance in reducing risk factors, conducting research and surveillance, and strengthening health systems in relation to non-communicable diseases.
The challenges the country now faces is establishing a sentinel surveillance systems for tracking burden and risks of each of the major NCD conditions in the target populations, ensure availability of key essential drugs for NCD in primary care health centres, and reducing NCD risks by strengthening food policies on reduced salt intake, reduced consumption of high content sugar beverages, trans-fats and marketing of unhealthy foods addressed to children.
Source: ICDDR,B

 

Non-communicable diseases a substantial challenge for Bangladesh

A newly developed scorecard by an international group including icddr,b shows Bangladesh performs poorly in reducing non-communicable disease. The Lancet recently published findings of a new scorecard, measuring the performance of 23 countries in reducing their burden of non-communicable diseases. The scorecard results show that many countries including Bangladesh are yet to establish needed actions to reduce deaths and disability from non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer and chronic lung disease. Grand Southa global network of 11 research centres including icddr,bdeveloped the scorecard as a tool to monitor and help improve the performance of countries with high non-communicable disease burden. The scorecard was developed as a result of a United Nations political declaration after a high level meeting in 2011 that committed countries to actions that would help prevent and control non-communicable diseases. Non-communicable diseases are responsible for half of Bangladeshs annual mortality and account for 61% of the countrys disease burden. The scorecard identifies Bangladeshs low performance in reducing risk factors, conducting research and surveillance, and strengthening health systems in relation to non-communicable diseases. The challenges the country now faces is establishing a sentinel surveillance systems for tracking burden and risks of each of the major NCD conditions in the target populations, ensure availability of key essential drugs for NCD in primary care health centres, and reducing NCD risks by strengthening food policies on reduced salt intake, reduced consumption of high content sugar beverages, trans-fats and marketing of unhealthy foods addressed to children. Source: ICDDR,B