A new World Bank report warning Pakistan is facing a health crisis and rising rates of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other diseases (), which are disproportionately affected poor and exacerbate poverty.
According to a report entitled "On the basis of the demographic transition: the fight against noncommunicable diseases in South Asia, non-communicable diseases now account for 59 percent of the total disease burden in Pakistan. The burden of disease is the impact of a health problem in an area measured by the cost, mortality and morbidity among other financial indicators.
Although non-communicable diseases do not spread by infection, this share should increase as the proportion of people over 65 will increase due to the lack of adequate health facilities compared to those in developed countries.
ISLAMABAD: The report indicates that the average life expectancy in Pakistan is now 66 years later. But, he said, older people not living better, healthier nutrition, increased incomes and access to good medical care.
Co-author Michael Engelgau, MD, World Bank Senior public health expert, says that low birth weight - typically poor families in Pakistan - is a major risk factor for non-communicable diseases in adults. "Several risk factors such as obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol, and glucose is often present in the same person," he says.
This trend is prevalent in most of the neighboring countries of Pakistan. The researchers reviewed recent data from eight South Asian countries like Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and noted that South Asians six years younger (53 vs 59 years) than in the rest of the world for the first time a heart attack.
"This disproportionate burden is particularly hard for the poor, who, heart attacks, faces a lifetime of serious illness, should pay most attention outside of their savings or selling assets and then find themselves caught in the poverty trap, where no can improve, and can not work, "Engelgau says.
Pakistan's progress in the fight against the situation is pathetic. In 2002, Pakistan, the ban on smoking and protect non-smokers Health Ordinance 2002, which included measures to stop smoking in public places and ban the advertising of cigarettes. But it has yet to materialize.
As a policy proposal, call the experts to Pakistan to develop and adopt a national policy on NCDs.
They also suggest strengthening the rules on tobacco and retraining of health personnel to prevent and control chronic diseases. Other proposals, saying that Pakistan should create a national NCD control the development of skills assessment and other systems.
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