Most prevalent diseases in world

Answer 1

Major infectious diseases: degree of risk: intermediate

food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever

water contact disease: schistosomiasis (2013)

Answer 2

Chronic diseases (eg, cardiovascular diseases, mental health disorders, Diabetes, and cancer) and injuries are the leading causes of death and disability in India, and we project pronounced increases in their contribution to the burden of disease during the next 25 years. Most chronic diseases are equally prevalent in poor and rural populations and often occur together. Although a wide range of cost-effective primary and secondary prevention strategies are available, their coverage is generally low, especially in poor and rural populations. Much of the care for chronic diseases and injuries is provided in the private sector and can be very expensive. Sufficient evidence exists to warrant immediate action to scale up interventions for chronic diseases and injuries through private and public sectors; improved public health and primary health-care systems are essential for the implementation of cost-effective interventions. We strongly advocate the need to strengthen social and policy frameworks to enable the implementation of interventions such as taxation on bidis (small hand-rolled cigarettes), smokeless tobacco, and locally brewed alcohols. We also advocate the integration of national programmes for various chronic diseases and injuries with one another and with national health agendas. India has already passed the early stages of a chronic disease and injury epidemic; in view of the implications for future disease burden and the demographic transition that is in progress in India, the rate at which effective prevention and control is implemented should be substantially increased. The emerging agenda of chronic diseases and injuries should be a political priority and central to national consciousness, if universal health care is to be achieved.

a Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

b Sangath, Goa, India

c Health Statistics and Informatics, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

d Department of Health Systems Financing, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

e Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India

f Department of Epidemiology, WHO Collaborating Centre for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, India

g Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, and Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, India

h Centre for Chronic Diseases Control India, New Delhi, India

i Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Correspondence to: Prof Vikram Patel, Sangath Centre, Alto Porvorim, Goa, India 403521

Answer 3

This is a hard question to answer since i dont know what is meant by "other" but tetanus is the largest cause of death, even though alot of people think it is malaria, aids, hunger, cholera or others.

Answer 4

The cancers most common in developing countries are those that have a poor prognosis - lung, stomach, liver and esophagus. Africa Liver cancer is the most common cancer for men in several African countries, although Kaposi Sarcomahas become the most common cancer in 13 countries that are severely affected by the AIDS epidemic.

Answer 5

In what part of the world is it most prevalent? In what part of the world is it most prevalent?

Answer 6

Pretty much every disease America has avoided,along with HIV and AIDS.

Answer 7

malaria and sleeping sickness

Answer 8

AIDS and Malareia

Answer 9

herpes