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Other Non-Communicable Diseases: Reducing the Global Burden
Pages 48-51

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... CDC Public Health Image Library Colored X-ray showing the blood vessels in a human lung (Science Photo Library®) 48 20220909 NAM 50th Book Pages 30-55-RTP.indd 48 9/13/22 7:29 PM
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From page 49...
... in 1997, the National Kidney Foundation's clinical 1980 In 2016, in response to rising costs for insulin, practice guidelines set standards for treatment of Understanding the Lasting the American Diabetes Association passed a all aspects of kidney disease, resulting in major Effects of Trauma resolution calling for transparency across the supply differences in the quality of care for patients. Specifically, the 2002 chronic kidney disease Long-term symptoms of trauma and post chain, and Congress held hearings and conducted clinical practice guideline highlighted for the first traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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... committed group of scientists encouraged the Asthma Over the Years That same year, the Institute of Medicine released formation of the Global Initiative for Chronic While asthma is not a new condition, the World Growing Up Tobacco Free: Preventing Nicotine Obstructive Lung Disease in 1997, which works Health Organization estimated that its incidence Addiction in Children and Youths, which identified to improve the lives of people with COPD through has increased over 60 percent and that the death tobacco-related deaths as "the leading cause of events and evidence-based strategies. Research rate from asthma has doubled since the 1980s.
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... World Health Organization announced the launch that 71 percent of global deaths were due to non of the Global Noncommunicable Disease Network, communicable diseases, especially cardiovascular The risk factors that predispose a network of leading health organizations and diseases, cancers, diabetes, and chronic lung individuals to these diseases experts seeking to strengthen global partnerships diseases, with the burden of these diseases falling must be reduced along with the and help governments implement measures to disproportionately on lower-income countries reduce the non-communicable disease burden. and populations.
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