Public Health Approach to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention & Management

Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) are the number one cause of death and disability globally, being the most important public health problem that needs to be tackled as more people die annually from CVDs than from any other cause. Over three-quarters of CVD deaths take place in low- and middle-income countries. This book on cardiovascular diseases provides an overview of the global and regional challenges associated with CVDs. Coupled with case studies and theoretical concepts, it helps the reader to contextualize CVDs in the broader public health system and the administrative aspects of practicing CVD control approaches for improved population health in their local setting. Key Features:1. Covers existing and emerging issues in cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention.2. Has a multidisciplinary approach in content and audience.3. Connects with health systems and relevant sustainable development goals.4. Provides case studies for enabling readers to understand and apply evidence-based solutions to key public health issues.5. Has inputs from globally renowned public health experts.

Chapter 1 Cardiovascular Diseases WorldwideD. Prabhakaran Chapter 2 Cardiovascular diseaseThomas Gaziano Chapter 3 Concept of Risk and Risk factorsRima N. Pai and Shivani A. Patel Chapter 4 Concepts in PreventionRadhika Prakash Asrani and Shivani A. PatelChapter 5 Risk Factors5.1 – Cardiovascular Disease Risk FactorsD. Prabhakaran 5.2 – TobaccoManu Mathur and Piyu Sharma 5.3 DietLindsay M. Jaacks, Arun K Chopra & D. Prabhakaran 5.4 Physical ActivityShifalika Goenka. Prarthna Mukerjee & Greg Heath 5.5 Cardiovascular Disease, Overweight and Obesity: Shared Strategies for Prevention and ManagementPanniyammakal Jeemon, Johanna Ralston & Piyu Sharma 5.6 AlcoholMonika Arora, Neha Jain & Sven Andreasson5.7 Public Health approaches to prevention and management of hypertension in LMICsArun Pulikkottil Jose & Neil R Poulter 5.8 DiabetesDorothy Lall, Ram Jagannathan & K M Venkat Narayan 5.9 Public Health and Clinical Approaches to Dyslipidemia ManagementSamuel S. Gidding & Arun K Chopra Chapter 6 Emerging and life course factors in CVDPoornima Prabhakaran, Krithiga Sridhar & Vinita SubramanyaChapter 7 Social determinants of cardiovascular diseasesPanniyammakal Jeemon & K Srinath Reddy Chapter 8 How do we frame public health policies?Anand Krishnan, Tilahun Haregu and Brian Oldenburg Chapter 9 Public Health Policies for Prevention and Control of Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs)Sailesh MohanChapter 10 Situational Analysis of Health Policies for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Prevention and ControlSugitha Sureshkumar & Sailesh Mohan Chapter 11 Role of Surveillance Systems and Health Observatories for intelligent public health approach to cardiovascular diseasesAnand Krishnan & Lorraine Oldridge Chapter 12 Health Systems Interventions for Preventing CVD in Low and Middle-income CountriesShreya Rao, Ricardo A. Peña Silva & Ambarish Pandey Chapter 13 Advocacy and Health PromotionRadhika Shrivastav, Aastha Chugh, Prachi Kathuria and Manjusha Chatterjee Chapter 14 Digital Health and Cardiovascular disease: Current Status and Future DirectionsArun Pulikkottil Jose, Devraj Jindal & D. Prabhakaran Chapter 15 Public Health Approaches to Rheumatic Heart Disease Prevention and ManagementR. Krishna Kumar Chapter 16 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods, Innovations and ApplicationsKaitlin Howard, Shuchi Anand and Rachel Nugent Chapter 17 Universal health coverage for better cardiovascular disease outcomes in LMICs: Focus on quality, not just coverageGiridhara R. Babu, Yamuna A, Min Kyung Kim, Margaret E. Kruk, Hannah H. Leslie Chapter 18 Monitoring and Evaluation of Cardiovascular Diseases Prevention programsRajmohan Panda and Abdul Ghaffar

Dr Dorairaj Prabhakaran is currently Vice President ( Research and Policy) and Director, Centre for Control of Chronic Conditions, PHFI. Dr Shuchi Anand M.D. M.S. is Director of the Center for Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease and Assistant Professorof Medicine (Nephrology)at Stanford University. Prof.K. Srinath Reddy is the President, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).