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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The Lancet - Website: <a href="http://bit.ly/fvLopJ" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="color:navy">http://bit.ly/fvLopJ</span></font></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">“……..In
September 2011, the UN will hold its first High-level Meeting of the General
Assembly on chronic non-communicable diseases. <span><i>The
Lancet</i></span>’s Series of papers is a contribution to preparations
for the September meeting. <br>
These papers cover a range of diseases – cardiovascular, diabetes,
cancer, and chronic obstructive respiratory diseases – and present
strategies for substantial health gains, monitoring, and scaling up of
interventions. We also highlight earlier <span><i>Lancet</i></span>
Series and provide links through to all of the relevant content. …’</span></font></p>



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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold">Series Comment</span></font></b></p>

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Chronic diseases: global action must match global evidence</span></font></b></span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Robert Beaglehole, Richard Horton</span></font></span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>


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Rethinking health-care systems: a focus on chronicity</span></font></b></span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Pascale Allotey, Daniel D Reidpath, Shajahan Yasin, Carina K Chan,
Ama de-Graft Aikins</span></font></span><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><a href="http://www.lancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61856-9/fulltext" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="color:navy">Full Text</span></font></a> <span>|</span> <a href="http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673610618569.pdf?id=e16241398b8eb460:3bb166fc:12db9495663:-c891295897483315" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="color:navy">PDF</span></font></a>
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</span></font></b></span><span><b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Mobilising
the world for chronic NCDs</span></font></b></span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Jean Claude Mbanya, S B Squire, Eduardo Cazap, Pekka Puska</span></font></span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>


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Series Papers</span></font></b></p>

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Raising the priority of preventing chronic diseases: a political process</span></font></b></span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Robert Geneau, David Stuckler, Sylvie Stachenko, Martin McKee, Shah
Ebrahim, Sanjay Basu, Arun Chockalingham, Modi Mwatsama, <br>
Rozmin Jamal, Ala Alwan, Robert Beaglehole</span></font></span><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>

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Health, agricultural, and economic effects of adoption of healthy diet
recommendations</span></font></b></span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Karen Lock, Richard D Smith, Alan D Dangour, Marcus Keogh-Brown,
Gessuir Pigatto, Corinna Hawkes, Regina Mara Fisberg, Zaid Chalabi</span></font></span><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>

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Tackling of unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, and obesity: health effects
and cost-effectiveness</span></font></b></span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font></p>

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Veronica Guajardo-Barron, Daniel Chisholm</span></font></span><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>

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</span></font></b></span><span><b><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Prevention
and management of chronic disease: a litmus test for health-systems
strengthening in low-income and middle-income countries</span></font></b></span><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font></p>

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Bekedam, Anna Wright, Justine Hsu, Alexandra Martiniuk, Francesca Celletti, <br>
Kiran Patel, Fiona Adshead, Martin McKee, Tim Evans, Ala Alwan, Carissa Etienne</span></font></span><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>

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Monitoring and surveillance of chronic non-communicable diseases: progress and
capacity in high-burden countries</span></font></b></span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font></p>

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d’Espaignet, Colin Douglas Mathers, Gretchen Anna Stevens, Douglas
Bettcher</span></font></span><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>

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Additional Lancet Series</span></font></b></p>

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Chronic diseases and injuries in India</span></font></b></span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> <br>
</span></font><span><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Vikram Patel, Somnath
Chatterji, Dan Chisholm, Shah Ebrahim, Gururaj Gopalakrishna, Colin Mathers,
Viswanathan Mohan, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, <br>
Ravilla D Ravindran, K Srinath Reddy</span></font></span><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> <br>
Published Jan 11, 2011 <br>
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