[1] Display setup> [2] Title [3] Definition [4] The health transition [5] Trends of disease patterns [6] Mortality over time (US,1900-1970) [7] Mortality by cause of death (US) [8] Motality rates (US, 1910-1970) [9] Favors the young over the old [10] The 4 stages [11] The 4 stages of health transition [12] The cardiovascular disease transition [13] Transition in cardiovascular disease [14] Differences in CVD mortality [15] The high burden of stroke [16] High toll of NCD/CVD in middle age [17] Type and regional distribution [18] A model of the health transition [19] How to interpret the health transition [20] Engines of the health transition [21] Demographic and epidemiologic transition [22] Percent of urban population [23] Demographic transition [24] Indicators over time [25] Models of demographic transition [26] Models of demographic transition [27] Recent declines in fertility rates [28] Determinant in fertility rates [29] Demographic transition in Seychelles [30] Aging population [31] Impact of growing and aging populations [32] Lifestyle [33] Lifestyle transition [34] Changes in cigarettes consumption [35] Nutritional transition [36] Higher levels of risk factors [37] Increasing levels of risk factors [38] Prevalence of overweight and obesity [39] Prevalence of high systolic B.P. [40] Socioeconomic [41] Socioeconomic transition [42] Rural-urban differences [43] Socioeconomic differences [44] Some issues related to socioeconomic [45] Health care [46] Health care transition [47] Burden of health expenditures [48] Aid disbursements for health [49] Allocation of resources for NCD [50] Other determinants of NCDs [51] Determinants of disease patterns [52] Predicted trends in disease patterns [53] The coming epidemic of CVD [54] Change in rank order of DALY [55] Impact of changes in incidence of CVD [56] The double burden of disease [57] The double burden of disease [58] Appraisal of the situation : summary [59] Impact of NCDs on public health [60] Consequences of the health transition [61] Evidence of the preventability [62] Health transition prediction [63] Primary prevention of coronary disease [64] Low risk factor profile [65] Risk status, income and CVD mortality [66] CVD risk factors [67] Cardiovascular disease [68] Strategies for the primary prevention [69] Question [70] Which possible responses ? [71] Linear relation [72] Relative risk, RF prevalence [73] Preventive strategies [74] Strategies to prevent NCD/CVD [75] Public health approach [76] Estimated stroke/CHD deaths [77] Yield of a treatment strategy [78] Public health response to emerging CVD [79] Areas for public health interventions [80] Constraints for NCD/CVD prevention [81] Preventing NCD/CVD [82] Global strategy for the NCD/CVD [83] Health transition and NCD/CVD [84] The way forward