Increasing risk factors hurt economic growth
Better prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) could avert millions of years of lost productivity. Increasing risk factors cause...
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Paul Adepoju — Nigeria
- 8 min
Make the link between chronic disease and economic output
As COVID-19 pandemic-priorities escalated, care of non-communicable diseases got pushed aside, particularly in less well off countries....
Devang Vussonj & Heri Marwa — Tanzania
- 5 min
Community health workers key to cost-effective prevention
Already strained healthcare systems further burdened by the Covid-19 pandemic are struggling to pay sufficient attention to NCDs, the...
Nalini Saligram & Deepa Prahalad - United States of America
- 5 min
Reflecting on women and NCDs in COVID-19 times
Before the pandemic crisis, women’s lives were already heavily affected by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), as women constitute the...
Christine Michael — United States
- 7 min
Double burden on the poor
Populations in more than one in three low-income countries are hit by a double burden of malnutrition in the form of both obesity and...
Jo Waters — United Kingdom
- 7 min
Coronavirus could spur reforms to improve health of city dwellers
The number of people living in cities is projected to rise from 55 % to 68 % of the world’s population by 2050, according to the United...
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