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Long-term Impacts of Leading Chronic Diseases in Low- and Middle-income Countries: a Comparative Analysis

In: Health and Development

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  • David Stuckler
  • Derek Yach

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In 2008 more than 31 million people will die from four leading chronic diseases — heart disease, respiratory diseases, diabetes, and common cancers.2 Nearly 80 per cent of these deaths will occur in low- and middle-income countries, where these chronic diseases claim around 80 per cent more lives than the infectious causes put together.3 Over the past decade rises in chronic diseases have been most greatly concentrated in developing countries, and have outpaced some of the original Global Burden of Disease ‘pessimistic scenario’ forecasts.

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  • David Stuckler & Derek Yach, 2009. "Long-term Impacts of Leading Chronic Diseases in Low- and Middle-income Countries: a Comparative Analysis," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Anna Gatti & Andrea Boggio (ed.), Health and Development, chapter 12, pages 199-216, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58198-2_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230581982_12
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