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The Burden of Cardiovascular Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Black Diaspora
- Source :
- Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 5:1155-1158
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018.
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Abstract
- For over four decades the National Medical Association (NMA) and the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) have sought to bring to national attention the disparate burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among African Americans. However, systematic inquiry has been inadequate into the burden of CVD in the poor countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the African diaspora in the Americas outside the USA. However, recently, the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) has offered new tools for such inquiry. Several initial efforts in that direction using 2010 data have been published. This article highlights some new findings for SSA for 2016. It also suggests that NMA and ABC further this effort by direct advocacy and collaboration with the GBD to make estimates of CVD burden in African Americans and South American Blacks explicitly available in future iterations.
- Subjects :
- Burden of disease
Health (social science)
Sub saharan
Sociology and Political Science
Myocardial Ischemia
Black People
Disease
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Global Burden of Disease
Diaspora
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Political science
Environmental health
parasitic diseases
Prevalence
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Mortality
Africa South of the Sahara
Health Policy
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health Status Disparities
South America
United States
Black or African American
Stroke
Caribbean Region
Cardiovascular Diseases
Anthropology
South american
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21968837 and 21973792
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4497c8614ede6920b0eb3b6a0643614a