Scientific American
Fighting the Quiet Crisis of Noncommunicable Diseases
COVID-19 has undermined capacity for care of patients with chronic, non-infectious diseases. Public-private partnerships aim to restore and improve.
This article was produced for Viatris by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine s board of editors. January 27, 2021
Improving care for heart disease, the most prevalent noncommunicable disease, could save millions of lives worldwide. Credit:
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After years working in the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS), Joanne Loades, an independent nurse and health educator from Norwich left in 2010 to pursue her own healthcare consulting business. Since then, Loades has set up programs, advised the NHS and trained more than 5,000 healthcare providers to encourage high-quality, evidence-based care for cardiovascular disease.