From a global perspective, the large and diverse African population is disproportionately
affected by cardiovascular disease (CVD). The historical balance between communicable …

Population health is a relatively new term, with no agreement about whether it refers to a
concept of health or a field of study of health determinants. There is debate, sometimes …

Why a thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this book about theories of disease
distribution, in past and present societal and ecological context? Because the lived realities …

Background Acute myocardial infarction is triggered by various factors, such as physical
exertion, stressful events, heavy meals, or increases in air pollution. However, the …

Background—Age is a major risk for cardiovascular diseases. Although mitochondrial
reactive oxygen species have been proposed as one of the causes of aging, their role in …

Socioeconomic status (SES) is a hierarchical social classification associated with different
outcomes in health and disease. The most important factors influencing SES are income …

An increasing number of studies are documenting the existence of inequities, and attention
is now turning to exploring pathways through which they are generated and might be …

Public health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of
data, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of the resulting information to those …

Background A population-based approach to healthcare goes beyond the traditional
biomedical model and addresses the importance of cross-sectoral collaboration in …

The contemporary global health agenda has shifted emphasis from mapping disease
patterns to calculating disease burden in efforts to gauge 'the state of world health'. In this …