Current Issue March 2012, Vol. 7, No. 1

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Priority-Setting Institutions in Health: Recommendations from a Center for Global Development Working Group
March 2012(Vol. 7 | No. 1 | Pages 13-34)
Amanda Glassman, Kalipso Chalkidou, Ursula Giedion, Yot Teerawattananon, Sean Tunis, Jesse B. Bump, Andres Pichon-Riviere

Policy Depot: A Tool to Build Global Capacity in Cardiovascular Health Policy
March 2012(Vol. 7 | No. 1 | Pages 47-51)
Keith Mason, Arun Chockalingam, Stephen Prudhomme, Sylvie Stachenko, Thomas Pearson
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Resource Needs for Addressing Noncommunicable Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Current and Future Developments
March 2012(Vol. 7 | No. 1 | Pages 53-60)
Karin Stenberg, Dan Chisholm

Trends in Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in Tunisia Prevention of Recurrences of MI and Stroke, 2002–2009
22 March 2012
N. Ben Mansour, O. Lassoued, O. Saidi, W. Aissi, S. Ben Ali, H. Ben Romdhane
Abstract: Objectives: The survival benefits achieved by prescription of antiplatelet agents, B-adrenoreceptor antagonists (beta-blockers), angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARB), and lipid lowering ag...
A Checklist for CVD Control in South Asia
21 March 2012
Rajeev Gupta, Mrigendra R. Pandey, Deewakar Sharma, Abdul Malik, Wijayasingham Santharaj
The South Asian region is home to a quarter of the world’s population and has the largest absolute burden of cardiovascular diseases, especially coronary heart disease . Policy, administrative, and cl...
The Best Prevention Efforts begin with Compassion
21 March 2012
Benn Grover
Elizabeth Gatumia’s commitment to helping children with rheumatic heart disease started 15years ago when she worked as a television newscaster for Good Morning Kenya. Parents would often bring their s...
The Burden of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases and the Conventional Risk Factors in the South Asian Population
21 March 2012
Tanvir Chowdhury Turin, Nahid Shahana, Lungten Z. Wangchuk, Adrian V Specogna, Mohammad Al Mamun, Mudassir Azeez Khan, Sohel Reza Choudhury, M. Mostafa Zaman, Nahid Rumana
Abstract: Similar to most populations, South Asian countries are also witnessing the dramatic transitions in health during the last few decades with the major causes of adverse health shifting from a ...

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A Pivotal Moment for Global Cardiovascular Disease: The World Heart Federation and the UN NCD Summit
December 2011 (Vol. 6 | No. 4 | Pages 125-126)
Sidney C. Smith, Johanna Ralston
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Youth Manifesto on Non-Communicable Diseases
December 2011 (Vol. 6 | No. 4 | Pages 201-210)
Sandeep P. Kishore, Karen R. Siegel, Aria Ahmad, Amina A. Aitsi-Selmi, Mohammed K. Ali, Phillip Baker, Sanjay Basu, Asaf Bitton, Gerald S. Bloomfield, Gene Bukhman, Eleanor Emery, Andrea B. Feigl, Karen Grepin, Mark D. Huffman, Kiti Kajana, Shweta Khandelwal, Kavitha Kolappa, Chenhui Liu, Naaznin Lokhandwala, Vishal Marwah, Modi Mwatsama, Nicole Novak, Shantanu Nundy, Paul H. Park, Cristina Parsons Perez, Matthew R. Price, Nikka Rapkin, Hester Rice, Ben Seligman, Sumit Shah, Joao da Silva, Devi Sridhar, David Stuckler, Rajesh Vedanthan, Justin Zaman, The Young Professionals’ Chronic Disease Network
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Summary of the Institute of Medicine Report: Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World
December 2011 (Vol. 6 | No. 4 | Pages 133-142)
Valentin Fuster, Bridget Kelly
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Non-Communicable, Chronic Disease Training and Education Needs in India
December 2011 (Vol. 6 | No. 4 | Pages 195-199)
Shweta Khandelwal, Mark D. Huffman, Seema Shah, Sandeep Kishore, Karen Siegel
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Potential for Global Progress in Control of Chronic Diseases: A Turning Point in 2011
December 2011 (Vol. 6 | No. 4 | Pages 127-132)
Bridget Kelly, Kathleen C. Ostapkovich, Collin Weinberger, Valentin Fuster
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