Global burden of non-communicable diseases will rise
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Significance In the same period, the share of deaths from communicable (or infectious) diseases has fallen from 30% to 23%. Yet there has been no corresponding shift in global development assistance for health, and policy initiatives to combat NCDs are minimal. Impacts NCDs will slow global economic growth as chronic sufferers will have limited productive capacities in the workplace. Health infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries will be increasingly overwhelmed and overburdened. Their health workers will be forced to shift their focus from treating communicable to non-communicable diseases.
2018 ◽
Vol 63
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pp. 1011-1012
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2006 ◽
Vol 35
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pp. 494-495
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2017 ◽
Vol 5
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pp. e230-e231
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