Table 4

Chronic Disease Prevention Activities in Ghana and Cameroon

Ghana

Cameroon


Structural


Policy

++

+++


Fiscal

-

-


Industry and Business

-

-


International collaboration

+

+++


Community


Mass media

++

+


Voluntary/advocacy organisations

+++

+


Institutions

(school, workplace, churches)

++

+


Primary healthcare

+

++


Individual


Lifestyle

+

+


Pharmacological interventions

+

++


Key: +++ (ideal, compared to existing good practices); ++ (satisfactory); + (poor); - (strategy not available)

de-Graft Aikins et al. Globalization and Health 2010 6:6   doi:10.1186/1744-8603-6-6

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