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Mashup Score: 1NCDs cost $591million – Dr Nand - 5 month(s) ago
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) cost Fiji’s public sector $591million in lost productivity in 2019. That, according to Dr Devina Nand, director of Epidemiology at the Mini stry of Health, is an underestimation, meaning, Fiji could be losing millions more from NCD-related conditions suffered by the national workforce. Dr Nand was speaking at the TOPEX 2023 convention in Nadi, which ended yesterday. “That there is a lot of loss in productivity due to NCDs. From the $406 million in 2015, we’ ve jumped to
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Mashup Score: 5Leading causes of death in Fiji - 6 month(s) ago
Circulatory diseases, diabetes and cancers were the leading causes of death in Fiji from 2016-21 for both males and females for all ages, states the Vital Statistics Report 2016-2021 released by the Fiji Bureau of Statistics, Registrar General’s Office and the Ministry of Health & Medical Services. The number of deaths in both sexes averages 7480 deaths per year but in 2021, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji, the number of deaths sharply increased to 8815. The report states among children
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Circulatory 🫀diseases, #diabetes and #cancer were the leading causes of death in Fiji 🇫🇯 from 2016-21 for both males and females for all ages, states the recently released Vital Statistics Report. #NCDs https://t.co/bSYWPiS9qx
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Mashup Score: 5NCD burden estimated at $591m - 7 month(s) ago
Fiji’s non-communicable diseases burden is estimated to cost the economy up to $591.4 million annually, says Health Ministry’s chief medical advisor Dr Jemesa Tudravu. Dr Tudravu said this indicated inadequate prevention and attention to its risk factors. He told participants at the Transforming Primary Health Care in Fiji workshop in Suva yesterday that up to 70 per cent of deaths in Fiji were because of NCDs, so it was a priority of the ministry and the Government to work towards building a more
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Fiji’s non-communicable diseases #NCDs burden is estimated to cost the economy up to $591.4 million annually (~14% of GDP), says 🇫🇯Health Ministry’s chief medical advisor Dr Jemesa Tudravu. https://t.co/7VQRMuQ8Ig
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Non-Communicable Diseases #NCDs cost public sector of #Fiji 🇫🇯 $591million in lost productivity. https://t.co/EhIu9FzfSe