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  2. Non-communicable disease - Wikipedia

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    A non-communicable disease (NCD) is a disease that is not transmissible directly from one person to another. NCDs include Parkinson's disease , autoimmune diseases , strokes , heart diseases , cancers , diabetes , chronic kidney disease , osteoarthritis , osteoporosis , Alzheimer's disease , cataracts , and others.

  3. National Council on Disability - Wikipedia

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    In 1978, NCD was created under the original name of the National Council on the Handicapped. It was set up as an advisory body to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by the Comprehensive Services and Disability Amendments Act of 1978 as an amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 780 et seq.).

  4. United Nations Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and ...

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    Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), often known as chronic diseases, include cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and mental health conditions. The Task Force consists of a World Health Organization (WHO) Secretariat (currently led by Nick Banatvala from the United Kingdom) and 46 United Nations (UN) and inter ...

  5. List of countries by risk of death from non-communicable ...

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    Measuring the risk of dying from target NCDs is important to assess the extent of burden from mortality due NCDs in a population. Life tables specifying all-cause mortality rates by age and sex for WHO Member States are developed from available death registration data, sample registration systems (India, China) and data on child and adult ...

  6. List of medical abbreviations: N - Wikipedia

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    Na: sodium (from Latin natrium) NA: negative appendectomy NAAT: Nucleic Acid Amplification Test: NABS: normoactive bowel sounds NAC: n-acetyl cysteine NaCl sodium chloride (saline) NAD: no abnormality detected no apparent distress no appreciable disease (and many variations of the above) NAD + nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide: NAFLD: Non ...

  7. NCD - Wikipedia

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    About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file; ... NCD may refer to: Language. Nemine contradicente ...

  8. National coverage determination - Wikipedia

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    The NCD development process generally takes 6–9 months, depending on the need for external technology assessments or coverage advisory committee reviews. For NCD requests that do not require these assessments/reviews, the entire NCD decision will be made no more than 6 months after the date the request is received. [2]

  9. National Centre for Disease Control - Wikipedia

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    Director S.P. Ramakrishnan at the sign for the newly renamed Central Institute for Communicable Diseases (ca. 1964). Credit: Wellcome Institute The origin of the National Centre for Disease Control can be traced to the Central Malaria Bureau, which was established at Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, India in 1909.