The Oxford Health Alliance: old problems, new approaches

Leeder, Stephen R; Colagiuri, Ruth

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00171.x

One way to tackle social forces that lead to disease is to recruit the putative culprits

The world is in the grip of an epidemic of non-communicable disease. We have known this in affluent nations for decades, but have not understood just how large a problem it has become in developing economies.1 Chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes, cancer and obstructive pulmonary disease are increasingly undermining prospects for a stable economic future, especially in lower- and middle-income countries2,3 and the poorer segments of society in the developed world.

Australian Health Policy Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

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