TY - JOUR
T1 - What should we do to raise awareness on the issue of cancer in the global health agenda?
AU - Kawahara, Norie
AU - Masui, Tohru
AU - Roh, Jae Kyung
AU - Hao, Xi Shan
AU - Hill, David
AU - Akaza, Hideyuki
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by Health and Labour Sciences Research Grants.
Copyright:
Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - Developing and emerging countries, including China and India, account for a large proportion of the global population, and as measures to address infectious diseases in these countries bear results, we are seeing a transformation in the nature of diseases that affect these countries. It is against this backdrop that cancer is presenting an increasingly serious threat in developing countries (WHO. The World Health Report 2008-primary health care: now more than ever.) 'Global health' has become an often-heard term in discussions on international health, and backed by a number of well-funded global initiatives, it is now positioned as one of the major agenda items for the international community (Reich MR, Takemi K, Roberts MJ, Hsiao WC. Global Action on Health Systems: A Proposal for the Toyako G8 Summit. Lancet 2008;371:865-9). However, cancer has not yet attained its rightful position on this global health agenda. This paper gives an overview of the discussions that took place at the 5th Asia Cancer Forum. Based on the challenges and outlook for placing cancer on the global health agenda, we conduct analysis that focuses on top-down mechanisms and bottom-up mechanisms.
AB - Developing and emerging countries, including China and India, account for a large proportion of the global population, and as measures to address infectious diseases in these countries bear results, we are seeing a transformation in the nature of diseases that affect these countries. It is against this backdrop that cancer is presenting an increasingly serious threat in developing countries (WHO. The World Health Report 2008-primary health care: now more than ever.) 'Global health' has become an often-heard term in discussions on international health, and backed by a number of well-funded global initiatives, it is now positioned as one of the major agenda items for the international community (Reich MR, Takemi K, Roberts MJ, Hsiao WC. Global Action on Health Systems: A Proposal for the Toyako G8 Summit. Lancet 2008;371:865-9). However, cancer has not yet attained its rightful position on this global health agenda. This paper gives an overview of the discussions that took place at the 5th Asia Cancer Forum. Based on the challenges and outlook for placing cancer on the global health agenda, we conduct analysis that focuses on top-down mechanisms and bottom-up mechanisms.
KW - Global health agenda
KW - Health equity
KW - Millennium development goals (mdgs)
KW - Traditional medicine
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U2 - 10.1093/jjco/hyq132
DO - 10.1093/jjco/hyq132
M3 - Article
C2 - 20870926
AN - SCOPUS:77957256333
VL - 40
SP - i82-i85
JO - Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology
JF - Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology
SN - 0368-2811
IS - SUPPL. 1
M1 - hyq132
ER -