Framing global discourses on non-communicable diseases: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The choices that policymakers make are shaped by how their problems are framed. At last, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have risen high on the global policy agenda, but there are many disputed issues. First, what are they? Their name refers not to what they are but what they are not. Second, where do their boundaries lie? What diseases are included? Third, should we view their causes as mainly biomedical, behavioural, or social, or a combination? Our failure to resolve these issues has been invoked as a reason for our limited progress in developing and implementing effective remedies. In this scoping review, we ask "What is known from the existing literature about how NCDs are framed in the global policy discourses?" We answer it by reviewing the frames employed in pol

SUBMITTER: Tan MMJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7786870 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature