Chronic Diseases and Urban Health incorporating the TB case-control platform

环境、营养、基础设施和流行病的变化对全世界人民的健康产生了深远影响。由于缺乏适当的卫生系统，发展中国家受到的影响更为明显。结核病平台已经证明了发现、监测、跟踪和分析活动病例以及接触者对人口整体健康的重要性。该平台向慢性病和城市健康的发展将使我们能够扩大这项工作，更好地评估冈比亚疾病监测和预防的要求。慢性病和城市卫生平台将支持该股计划开展的关于非传染性疾病和新出现的健康风险的工作。将收集有关环境、社会经济状况和与生活方式有关的风险因素的信息，因此将作为一个“有针对性的”城市健康监测系统。

Changes in environment, nutrition, infrastructure, and epidemics has had profound impacts on the health of people worldwide. The impact in developing countries is even more pronounced due to lack of adequate health systems. The TB platform has demonstrated the importance of active cases finding, monitoring, follow up and analysis of exposed contacts on the overall health of the population. The evolution of the platform to chronic diseases and urban health will allow us to upscale this work and better evaluate the requirements for disease monitoring and prevention in The Gambia. The Chronic Diseases and Urban Health platform will support the planned work on non-communicable diseases and emerging health risks for the Unit. Information will be collected on environment, socio-economic status and risk factors related to lifestyle and will therefore work as a ‘targeted’ urban health surveillance system.