CINDI-LIFE COUNTRYWIDE INTEGRATED NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES INTERVENTION

Impelled by a sudden impulse, Fernando de Padua challenged the CINDI Group to describe and write the LIFE of this program since its genesis, contemplating the present, and trying to make known to the world its near and long-term future. It was in December 2014 – Lithuania – during a CINDI Directors Meeting, that Nilza de Assis – current Vice-President of the Professor de Padua Foundation- presented this challenge as a mission on request by «her» President. The ten participant Directors, said promptly Yesà we can do it! There was a manifest desire in making history all together. CINDI Book would illustrate the birth, the experiences and the results, and the expecting INNOVATIONS to our time, on a project that motivated from the beginning a majority of the European countries, plus Canada, speaking the same ideal in favor of life prolongation with more quality, struggling to a strong decrease of the biggest killers in the world: cardiocerebrovascular diseases, and others chronic noncommunicable with common risk factors.