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National Program for non-communicable diseases
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- The Health Ministry has added new diseases to the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS)
- The addition of many new diseases or disease-groups and new health initiatives have prompted the Central government to widen the NPCDCS.
- It has decided to rename ‘NPCDCS’ as ‘National Programme for Prevention & Control of Non-Communicable Diseases [NP-NCD].
- NPCDCS is being implemented under the National Health Mission (NHM) across the country.
- The proportion of deaths due to NCDs in India have increased from 37.9% in 1990 to 61.8% in 2016.
- The four major NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) and diabetes.
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