دانلود کتاب Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: Explaining the Phenomenon in South Asians Worldwide 2019 ( PDF)
نام کتاب: Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: Explaining the Phenomenon in South Asians Worldwide 1st Edition
نويسنده/نويسندگان: Raj S. Bhopal (Author)
سال انتشار: 2019
نوع فايل: PDF
تعداد صفحات : 367
ناشر : Oxford University Press;
شابک : 9780198833246
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In people with South Asian ancestry, the cardiovascular diseases of stroke and coronary heart disease (CVD) are epidemic, and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) is pandemic. As South Asians comprise about 25% of the world's population their high susceptibility is of global public health and
clinical importance. Eluding researchers across the globe, this phenomenon continues to be a subject of intensive enquiry.
As Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, points out, the epidemics of chronic diseases, which he describes as a public health emergency in slow motion, can be restrained but not stopped. With a focus on the global South Asian population, Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease and
Diabetes: Explaining the Phenomenon in South Asians Worldwide is a critical review of current literature investigating the increase in cases of CVD and DM2, and the data underpinning them. The book argues that the high risk of CVD and DM2 in urbanised South Asians is not inevitable, genetic, or
programmed in a fixed way. Rather, exposure to risk factors in childhood, adolescence, and most particularly in adulthood, is the key to unravelling its cause.
Drawing on current scientific literature and discussions with 22 international scholars, the book presents a unique synthesis of theory, research, and public health practice under one cover - from tissue research to human intervention trials. It also addresses the challenge many health
professionals face in developing countries: to produce focused, low cost and effective actions for combating CVD and DM2. The lessons contained within will have ramifications in healthcare across the globe
Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: Explaining the Phenomenon in South Asians Worldwide is ideal for scholars, researchers and health practitioners working towards understanding and preventing the epidemics of these modern chronic diseases across the world.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"This is a commendable book packed with vignettes and a must read for all researchers and epidemiologists pursuing various theories as well as those contemplating research on the topic." -- Enas A. Enas MD, FACC, Executive Director, Coronary Artery Disease in Indians (CADI) Research Foundation
"This book is a thoughtful and useful addition to my reading list as a teacher of nursing, health care and research. It provides researchers and health-care practitioners with a strong foundation upon which to begin to think about race, ethnicity, multiculturalism and health care. This will be a
useful textbook for health-care and research students at the postgraduate level[.]" -- Helen Therese Allan, World Health Organisation
About the Author
Raj Bhopal is currently Emeritus Professor of Public Health at The University of Edinburgh.
His books are Concepts of Epidemiology, Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes; Explaining the Phenomenon in South Asians Worldwide; and Migration, Ethnicity, race and Health. His academic publications include about 350 journal articles, on topics including Legionnaires' disease, primary
care epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, ethnicity and health and the pandemic of COVID-19. He is currently focusing on ethnic variations in disease, with a special emphasis on how to respond to this knowledge with more effective public health interventions and clinical services. As Chairman
of the Executive Committees he was leader of the first World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health 2018. Raj Bhopal was appointed CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 2001.