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- Title: Africa's Burden of Disease: The University of Cape Town Sub-Saharan Africa Centre for Chronic Disease (Editorial)
- Author : K.C. Househam
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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A Sub-Saharan Africa Centre for Chronic Disease has been established at the University of Cape Town (UCT). It aims to develop, evaluate and disseminate methods and programmes to prevent chronic disease, improve the quality of care for patients with chronic disease and reduce risk factors. It will focus on surveillance, advocacy and prevention. Like the rest of South Africa, the Western Cape experiences a multiple burden of disease. These differ in geographical distribution and weight within the different districts and even the substructures of the Cape Town metropole. The identified and measured components of this burden are infectious diseases (tuberculosis (TB) and HIV), injuries (interpersonal violence and motor vehicle accidents), mental health disorders (related to alcohol and drugs such as tik) and chronic disease (diabetes, heart disease and cancer). This trend is mirrored nationally, although with differing weighting of these groupings.