Epidemiology Of Noncommunicable Diseases

Presenters - Logesvaran s/o Murugan, Nagarajan s/o Selvarajoo, Neelvily d/o Ponusamy
Moderator - Prof. Rashid Khan
Date - 2/12/08
Time - 10.30a.m - 11.30a.m

Seminar Outline

- Introduction on Noncommunicable Disease (NCD)

• Definition of Communicable Disease and Noncommunicable disease
• Epidemiology of Noncommunicable Disease in the world
• Characteristics of NCD
• Etiology of NCD - Multicausation Disease Model
• Trend Of NCD in Malaysia
• 6 Major NCD in Malaysia - IHD, Mental illness, Stroke, RTA, Cancer, Asthma, DM

- Breast Cancer
- Cervical Cancer
- Ischemic heart disease
- Hypertension
- Diabetes Mellitus

* All the topics explained in the format of brief introduction, magnitude of the problem in Malaysia and pre-pathogenesis.

- Prevention and control of the major NCD in Malaysia

• Types of prevention - Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
• Examples of the prevention and control measures for some of the diseases

Learning Objective

Learning objectives that was derived from the seminar are:

1. What is the statistic of NCD in Malaysia?
2. The latest statistics (2007) for cancer, hypertension, IHD and DM.
3. Why people are not compliant to the medication?
4. Elaborate how prevention and control of NCD carried out in Malaysia.