FOOD SECURITY IN NIGERIA: AN OVERVIEW

Double Burden, Non-Communicable Diseases And …

250 European Journal of Sustainable Development (2012), 1, 2, 249-270 Introduction Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are increasingly becoming the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide.

Tourism Development Strategies, SWOT analysis and ...

(2013) loyalty appears as a result of models which combined, mainly construct such as satisfaction, quality, image, and value. Although in this paper I mention some of the main elements that may constitute an effective communication of a touristic destination, the tourist considers his experience in another state as a package.

  Satisfaction, Destinations, Tourist, Loyalty

Issues, Challenges and Prospects of Small and Medium Scale ...

in the economic emancipation of countries, some of their major operational challenges in Nigeria Include: Financial Problems: About 80% of Small and medium entreprises are stifled because of poor financing and other associated problems [14]. The problem of financing SMEs is not so much the sources of funds but its accessibility.

  Economic, Challenges

Fatigue: An Overview

Nov 15, 2008 · Fatigue: An Overview ... other chronic diseases associated with ane-mia, patients are likely to be less fatigued if their hemoglobin level …

  Disease, Overview, Chronic, Chronic diseases

The UK Pharmaceutical Sector An Overview

The strong domestic demand for pharmaceutical products was due to the rising prevalence in chronic diseases. • Cancer incidence continues to rise in the UK, with breast, prostate and colorectal cancers accounting for more than 50% of all cancers • Diagnoses of diabetes more than doubled over the last 20 years

  Disease, Overview, Chronic, Chronic diseases

Living Well with a Chronic Condition

Chronic diseases are recognised as a major component of health service activity and expenditure, as well as a major contributor to mortality and ill-health. Thirty eight percent of Irish people over 50 years have one chronic condition, 11% have two or more of eight chronic conditions2 and 65% of adults

  With, Conditions, Disease, Living, Well, Chronic, Chronic diseases, Living well with a chronic condition

The Aging and Aging

by chronic lower respiratory diseases (CLRD), which include chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, and other chronic lower respiratory diseases. The leading causes of death vary among different age, sex, and race and Hispanic origin groups. 1 Fries, JF. Aging, natural death, and the compression of morbidity. N Engl J Med 303(3):130–5. 1980.

  Disease, Chronic

Overview of Noncommunicable Diseases and Related Risk …

Overview of NCD’s and Risk Factors Noncommunicable Disease (NCD): Definition • Chronic conditions that do not result from an (acute) infectious process and hence are “not communicable.” • A disease that has a prolonged course, that does not resolve spontaneously, and for which a complete cure is rarely achieved. McKenna, et al, 1998 . 4

  Disease, Overview, Chronic

Epidemiology Key Terms and Core Concepts

focused solely on infectious diseases. Today epidemiology studies a variety of health-related events, which includes chronic disease, environmental problems, behavioral problems, and injuries, in addition to infectious disease. • Populations: Epidemiology studies groups of people rather than with individuals. Epidemiology Key Terms and Core ...

  Disease, Chronic

FLORIDA'S OMNIBUS AIDS ACT

is of those suffering from other chronic illnesses, special confidentiality and anti-discrimination protections might not be needed. Florida's Omnibus AIDS Act responded directly to this group of characteristics distinguishing HIV infection from other communicable diseases. Some of these essential facts have begun to change.

  Disease, Florida, Aids, Chronic, Omnibus, Florida s omnibus aids act

Alcohol and the Immune System - National Institute on ...

Alcohol and Diseases Related to the Immune System Physicians have long observed that excessive alcohol consumption can lead not only to liver damage but also to increased illness and death from infectious diseases such as pneumonia. (See, for example, the writings of Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush [1745–1813] [Rush 1943]).

  System, Disease, Alcohols, Immune, Immune system

Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Older Adults: A Hidden ...

Overview Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of acute respiratory illness in older adults, with the risk of serious infection increasing with age.1–4 The virus circulates along with many other winter respiratory viruses, most notably seasonal influenza, and is largely indistinguishable from

  Overview