Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases in Global Regional and National Scales
Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases in Global, Regional, and National Scales:
A Focus on Obesity and its Related Disorders
Bagher Larijani, M.D., F.A.C.E.
Professor of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology
Deputy Minister for Medical Education
Founding Director-General and Chief Scientific Officer
Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute
(WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Education
on Management of Osteoporosis and Diabetes)
28 November 2019
Outline
- Global burden of NCDs and obesity
- Adverse health outcomes of obesity
- Burden of NCDs and obesity in the Middle East and Iran
- Integration of obesity care and into the health system
- WHO Targets for noncommunicable disease (NCDs)
- Iranian National NCD action-plan
- Obesity as a component of a “Global Syndemic”
- Conclusions
