Assessing Geographic Co-morbidity Associated with Vascular Diseases in South Africa: A Joint Bayesian Modeling Approach

Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala (), Samuel O. M. Manda () and William Tigbe
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Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala: University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School, Division of Health Sciences
Samuel O. M. Manda: South African Medical Research Council, Biostatistics Unit
William Tigbe: University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School, Division of Health Sciences

Chapter Chapter 15 in Advanced Techniques for Modelling Maternal and Child Health in Africa, 2014, pp 303-320 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The growing incidence of chronic conditions associated with changing lifestyles is creating new challenges for African countries; most of which are struggling with widespread infectious diseases. The dangers of infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Africa are well-known. However, the growing public health problems associated with lifestyle and chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, obesity, diabetes, cancer, as well as those associated with smoking, alcohol and drug abuse are not widely recognised. Changing lifestyles and dietary patterns, declining levels of physical activity and an increasingly long-lived population all play a role as African countries move through stages of nutritional and epidemiologic transitions (Mensah 2008). The shift from infectious to chronic diseases is accelerating: it’s projected that by 2020, chronic diseases will account for almost three-quarters of all deaths worldwide and that 60 % of the burden of chronic diseases will occur in developing countries (WHO 2011).

Keywords: Vascular Disease; High Blood Pressure; Heart Attack; High Blood Cholesterol; Double Burden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6778-2_15

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