Tobacco-related disease burden and preventive initiatives in China. Global health and the chronic diseases: perspective, policy and practice.
Yale J Biol Med
; 84(2): 155-9, 2011 Jun.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21698050
ABSTRACT
The burden of chronic diseases in global health is a surging area of research. The Global Health Initiative at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute brings together investigators from developing countries with those from the developed world to study these diseases. In China, approximately 83 percent of all deaths in 2000 were attributed to chronic illnesses, which are the research focuses of the Chinese center of the Global Health Initiative. Tobacco use as well as passive smoking are modifiable risk factors in a large number of such chronic conditions. The prevalence of smoking in China is extensive and has inseparable ties to the economy, with tobacco taxes making up a large portion of government revenue in poorer provinces. Methods of smoking prevention have been piloted in some Chinese schools, which have mitigated the increase in smoking rate but have not resulted in a primary preventive effect. Efforts by the Yale Global Health Initiative and the Yale-China Association are bringing researchers together to address chronic disease in China as Yale School of Medicine enters its 200th year.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Smoking
Type of study:
Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
America do norte
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Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
Yale J Biol Med
Year:
2011
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States