Non-Communicable Disease

The Impact of Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) towards the people of Fiji and the Pacific

Non communicable disease has been identified as a leading problem faced in the world contemporary. It can also be depicted that NCD has caused major disruption among individuals through, death, sickness, leaving its patient feel discriminated, on the other hand NCD decreased the level of poverty for certain countries, allowing government to set aside budget allocation for NCD. “Non-Communicable Disease is a non-infectious disease or medical condition... tend to be chronic (long-lasting) diseases with slow progression.” (Nordqvist, 2011). Non-communicable diseases are mainly, cardiovascular, chronic respiratory diseases, cancers, and diabetes. This essay

Diseases caused by NCD, is a concern to other large organizations, that they provide awareness drives, and sponsorship to let people know of the risk NCD have on their lives. Organization such as World Health Organization, World Bank, United Nation and World Health Federation are committed in eliminating NCD. World health organization are trying their best in the fight against NCD, many strategies have been made in the elimination of NCD. Short courses have been designed for people to understand the increase in non-communicable diseases, in the pacific. Also pamphlets have been distributed by these organization to help others with the knowledge of NCD. Besides the distribution of pamphlets and developing short courses, these organizations have been visiting Fiji and the pacific for awareness programs and undertaking surveys. These surveys taken to help world health organization in having accurate numbers of people with NCD’s. Many islands around the pacific benefits from the survey as these organization also do provides people with temporarily supplements of needs such as sanitation, clean water, foods and first aid equipment’s. As an illustration world health organization national strategic priorities is to “To build and strengthen national capacity for preparing and responding to public health… including water and food safety” (Organization, 2017). Therefore

Under these circumstances, organizations such as secretariat of the pacific community, Australia’s department of foreign affairs and trade, the World Bank and the world health organization have agreed to develop a crisis response packages (CRP). The package is implemented to raise the cost of tobacco, reduce the consumption of food. This will enable people to reduce their expenses on tobacco, alcohol, and food in the same manner reduce the risk of NCD. Similarly the government of Fiji has include medical services for NCD, this will ensure Fijian people have access to information on healthy decision making. On the positive side “The Ministry of Health & Medical Services will continue to actively seek collaboration from partners within and beyond the health sector to reduce NCD risk factors…” (Economy, 2017) for this reason government has provide budget to help in the fight against