Non-Communicable Diseases

What it covers

• What the Philippines actually dies of
• The four diseases, the four behaviors and the four measurements
• PhilPEN from risk assessment to referral
• Hypertension at Filipino thresholds, and the Asia-Pacific body mass index
• Heart attack and stroke in the barangay
• Diabetes, its complications and the diabetic foot
• Cancer, the seven warning signs and what screening is worth doing here
• Chronic respiratory disease and chronic kidney disease
• The DOH programs and the laws that carry them