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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:1494-1495
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Letter to the Editor

Developing effective and affordable models for non-communicable disease prevention and control

Franklin White

Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.

Sir—The editorial on ‘Exporting failure? Coronary heart disease and stroke in developing countries’, although provocative, is stronger on rhetoric than on scientific reasoning.1 For example, just because ‘one enthusiast’ made an inaccurate and refutable statement, this should not be a cause célebre. Critical reviews should be more constructive than this.

An assessment of trends reveals that non-communicable diseases (within which cardiovascular disease is a major category) are increasingly important, and indeed most public health professionals would agree that something should be done about it. The Burden . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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