WHO Releases 10-Year Review Report Chapters Focusing On NCDs, Universal Coverage, Global Health Security
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WHO: Noncommunicable diseases: the slow motion disaster This chapter of the WHO’s “Ten years in public health 2007-2017” report focuses on “the rise of chronic noncommunicable diseases. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases, once linked only to affluent societies, are now global, and the poor suffer the most.…