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Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases and National Strategies to Control Them in Korea
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the most important causes of premature mortality and disability-adjusted life years in Korea. NCDs are also the main contributor to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and life expectancy. Reduction of NCDs and NCD inequalities would result in significant impr...
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The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3740220/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23946873 http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.2013.46.4.155 |
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description | Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the most important causes of premature mortality and disability-adjusted life years in Korea. NCDs are also the main contributor to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and life expectancy. Reduction of NCDs and NCD inequalities would result in significant improvement in healthy life expectancy and health equity in Korea. Major NCD risk factors such as dietary risks (including salt intake), alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, and high blood pressure were found to be the leading modifiable risk factors of disability-adjusted life years in Korea, based on the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study. Several Korean studies have shown that these risk factors play an important role in creating socioeconomic inequalities in NCD mortality and total mortality. Current international discussions on NCD policies in the United Nations and the World Health Organization would provide better opportunities for developing aggressive population-wide policy measures in Korea. Considering the paucity of population-wide policies to control major NCD risk factors in Korea, rigorous population approaches such as taxation and regulation of unhealthy commodities as well as public education and mass campaigns should be further developed in Korea. |
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spelling | pubmed-37402202013-08-14 Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases and National Strategies to Control Them in Korea Khang, Young-Ho J Prev Med Public Health Special Article Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the most important causes of premature mortality and disability-adjusted life years in Korea. NCDs are also the main contributor to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and life expectancy. Reduction of NCDs and NCD inequalities would result in significant improvement in healthy life expectancy and health equity in Korea. Major NCD risk factors such as dietary risks (including salt intake), alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, and high blood pressure were found to be the leading modifiable risk factors of disability-adjusted life years in Korea, based on the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study. Several Korean studies have shown that these risk factors play an important role in creating socioeconomic inequalities in NCD mortality and total mortality. Current international discussions on NCD policies in the United Nations and the World Health Organization would provide better opportunities for developing aggressive population-wide policy measures in Korea. Considering the paucity of population-wide policies to control major NCD risk factors in Korea, rigorous population approaches such as taxation and regulation of unhealthy commodities as well as public education and mass campaigns should be further developed in Korea. The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine 2013-07 2013-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3740220/ /pubmed/23946873 http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.2013.46.4.155 Text en Copyright © 2013 The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Special Article Khang, Young-Ho Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases and National Strategies to Control Them in Korea |
title | Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases and National Strategies to Control Them in Korea |
title_full | Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases and National Strategies to Control Them in Korea |
title_fullStr | Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases and National Strategies to Control Them in Korea |
title_full_unstemmed | Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases and National Strategies to Control Them in Korea |
title_short | Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases and National Strategies to Control Them in Korea |
title_sort | burden of noncommunicable diseases and national strategies to control them in korea |
topic | Special Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3740220/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23946873 http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.2013.46.4.155 |
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