A confluence of stimuli is propelling academic public health to embrace the prevention of chronic disease in developing countries as its new frontier. These stimuli are a growing recognition of the epidemic, academia's call to reestablish public health as a mover of societal tectonics rather than a handmaiden to medicine's focus on the individual, and the turmoil in the US health system that makes change permissible. To enable graduating professionals to participate in the assault on chronic diseases, schools of public health must allocate budgets and other resources to this effort. The barriers to chronic disease prevention and risk factor modulation are cultural and political; confronting them will require public health to work with a wide variety of disciplines. Chronic disease will likely become the dominant global public health issue soon. In addressing this issue, academia needs to lead, not follow. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print June 16, 2011: e1-e5. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300147).
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机译：刺激的融合正在推动学术公共卫生将发展中国家预防慢性病作为其新领域。这些刺激越来越多地认识到流行病，学术界呼吁重新建立公共卫生体系，以推动社会构造学的发展，而不是医学将重心转移到个人身上，以及美国卫生系统的动荡使变化得以容许。为了使即将毕业的专业人员能够参与对慢性病的袭击，公共卫生学校必须为此投入预算和其他资源。慢性病预防和危险因素调节的障碍是文化和政治上的；面对他们将需要公共卫生与多种学科合作。慢性病有可能很快成为全球主要的公共卫生问题。为了解决这个问题，学术界需要领导而不是跟随。 （Am J Public Health。于2011年6月16日在网上提前发布：e1-e5。doi：10.2105 / AJPH.2011.300147）。
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