Chronic diseases step out of the shadows

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-07-01 09:40

Pramming notes that a third of economic growth over the past 200 years has been the result of improved health.

The Alliance developed from a paper on the challenges of treating chronic, non-communicable diseases that Daar co-authored in 2007. That paper led to further discussion among the initiating organizations, and the plan for the Alliance developed within six months.

The participating organizations are Australia's National Health Medical Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, China's Ministry of Health, the UK Medical Research Council, the US National Institutes of Health and, eventually, the Indian Council of Medical Research.

The six organizations manage approximately 80 percent of the world's funding for public health research, the group says.

The Alliance's research priorities will be discussed at a meeting in India in November, but India and China - recent studies have shown obesity on the rise in both countries - are likely to be areas of focus for the group.

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