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Weak surveillance and policy attention to cancer in global
                health: the example of Mozambique

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Cancer is an emerging public health problem in sub-Saharan
                Africa due to population growth, ageing and westernisation of
                lifestyles. The increasing burden of cancer calls for urgent
                policy attention to develop cancer prevention and control
                programmes. Cancer surveillance is an essential prerequisite.
                Only one in five low-income and middle-income countries have the
                necessary data to drive policy and reduce the cancer burden. In
                this piece, we use data from Mozambique over a 50-year period to
                illustrate cancer epidemiological trends in low-income and
                middle-income countries to hypothesise potential circumstances
                and factors that could explain changes in cancer burden and to
                discuss surveillance weaknesses and potential improvements. Like
                many low-income and middle-income countries, Mozambique faces
                the dual challenge of a still high morbidity and mortality due
                to infectious diseases in rural areas and increased incidence of
                cancers associated with westernisation of lifestyles in urban
                areas, as well as a rise of cancers related to the HIV epidemic.
                An increase in cancer burden and changes in the cancer profile
                should be expected in coming years. The Mozambican healthcare
                and health-information systems, like in many other low-income
                and middle-income countries, are not prepared to face this
                epidemiological transition, which deserves increasing policy
                attention.

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Reproducció del document publicat a:
                http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000654

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Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)

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Weak surveillance and policy attention to cancer in global
                health: the example of Mozambique