CORE Group Global Health Practitioner Conference 2019

1. Non-Communicable diseases, principally
cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic
respiratory diseases, and diabetes, are
leading causes of death and disability but
are grossly neglected on the global-health
agenda

6. The past 37 years have featured declining rates of
communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional diseases
across all quintiles of SDI. A global shift toward deaths at older
ages suggests success in reducing many causes of early death.
YLLs have increased globally for causes such as diabetes mellitus
or some neoplasms, and in some locations for causes such as
drug use disorders, and conflict and terrorism. Increasing levels
of YLLs might reflect outcomes from conditions that required
high levels of care but for which effective treatments remain
elusive, potentially increasing costs to health systems.
Lancet Sept.2017

7. Catharina Wesseling, Senior Consultant of Epidemiology
La Isla Network
Catharina (Ineke) Wesseling graduated as a physician at the University of Costa Rica
and obtained a PhD degree in occupational and environmental epidemiology at the
Karolinska Institutet, in Sweden. She worked for more than 25 years at the Central
American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET) of the Universidad Nacional
(UNA) in Heredia, Costa Rica, where she coordinated the Health Section of IRET. Her
main expertise is related to pesticides and the Mesoamerican nephropathy. Between
2003 and 2013, she was the Regional Director of the Central American Program on
Work, Environment & Health (SALTRA), where she initiated international research
collaboration on chronic kidney disease of unknown origin in Central America.
Currently, Catharina is a member of the LIN team and a researcher affiliated to the
Institute of Environmental Medicine of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm,
Sweden. She has (co)authored 130 peer reviewed international publications, book
chapters and monographs.