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Malaysia is a country that is undergoing a very fast development
pace. Vision 2020 has targeted Malaysia to become a developed and
progressive country. The rapid pace of development comes also with
it changing pattern of diseases in the country. In the early l960s
and l970s communicable diseases posed a great challenge for the
public health programme in its implementation. Towards the 1990s
noncommunicable or chronic diseases have shown increasing numbers,
and until today four of 10 major causes of death among Malaysian
population reported in government hospitals are due to
noncommunicable diseases such as heart/cardiovascular diseases,
accidents, cerebrovascular diseases (stroke) and cancer.
The Public Health Department of the Ministry of Health, Malaysia has
taken the initiative to plan and implement the prevention and
control activities for noncommunicable diseases since the late
1970s, undertaken by the Epidemiology Unit. With the restructuring
in 1995, the Noncommunicable Disease Section was established to
plan, implement, monitor and evaluate all these previous ncd-related
activities carried out by the epidemiology unit.
This NCD section were grouped together all the programme and
activities on the prevention and control of the cardiovascular
diseases, diabetes, injury (including accidents) and substance abuse
like alcohol and drugs.