© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Jadelson Andrade, Fausto Pinto and Donna Arnett (eds.)Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases10.1007/978-3-319-22357-5_11 Risk Factors in Childhood and Youth Joep Perk1 (1) School of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnaeus University, 391 82 Kalmar, Sweden…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Jadelson Andrade, Fausto Pinto and Donna Arnett (eds.)Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases10.1007/978-3-319-22357-5_3 Value of Primordial and Primary Prevention for Cardiovascular Diseases: A Global Perspective Armin Barekatain1 , Sandra Weiss2 and William S. Weintraub3 (1) Internal Medicine,…
The DALY metric was founded on the principles that: (1) everyone in the world has right to best life expectancy, and (2) differences in the rating of a death or…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Jadelson Andrade, Fausto Pinto and Donna Arnett (eds.)Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases10.1007/978-3-319-22357-5_6 Physical Inactivity: Preventable Risk Factor of Cardiovascular Disease Evangelista Rocha1 (1) Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Jadelson Andrade, Fausto Pinto and Donna Arnett (eds.)Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases10.1007/978-3-319-22357-5_10 Diabetes: A Primary Health Care Approach Meltem Zeytinoglu1 and Elbert S. Huang2 (1) Endocrinology and Metabolism, Chicago, IL, USA (2) Medicine University…
Fig. 1 The socio-ecological model showing the complex interplay amongst multiple levels of factors that influence public health problems. Figure adapted from: Dahlberg LL, Krug EG. Violence – a global…
