Saving Lives, Spending Less: A Strategic Response to NCDs

Author:
WHO
Publisher:
World Health Organisation
Publication Date:
23 May 2018
Tags:
Africa, Noncommunicable Diseases

A new WHO report shows that the world's poorest countries can gain US$350 billion by 2030 by scaling up investments in preventing and treating chronic diseases, like heart disease and cancer, that cost an additional US$1.27 per person annually. Such actions would save more than 8 million lives over the same period.

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