From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">From burden to "best buys": <br>
Reducing the economic impact of NCDs in low- and middle-income countries<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Summary: World
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">New WHO study details low-cost
solutions to help curb the tide on noncommunicable diseases<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Strategies to prevent and treat
cancer, heart disease, diabetes and lung disease for just US$ 1.20 per person
per year<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Available online PDF file at: <a href="http://bit.ly/r7ZYS0" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://bit.ly/r7ZYS0</span></font></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“……- A new WHO
study reveals that low-income countries could introduce a core set of
strategies to prevent and treat cancer, heart disease, diabetes and lung
disease for just US$ 1.20 per person per year. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The impact of noncommunicable
diseases - or NCDs - goes beyond health: their socioeconomic effects are
staggering. The cost of not taking action to address this global threat is
already severe and will intensify over time. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">"Noncommunicable diseases are
one of the leading threats to global economic growth and development. Over the
next 15 years, noncommunicable diseases will cost low- and middle-income
countries' more than US$ 7 trillion," says Jean Pierre Rosso, Chairman,
World Economic Forum (WEF), quoting the results of a WEF and Harvard School of
Public Health study released today. "When so many of the workforce is sick
and dies in their productive years, national economies lose billions of dollars
in output. And millions of families are pushed into poverty."<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Low-cost interventions<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The list includes measures that
target the population as a whole, such as excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol,
smoke-free indoor workplaces and public places, health information and
warnings, as well as campaigns to reduce salt content and replacement of trans
fats with polyunsaturated fats, along with public awareness programmes about
diet and physical activity.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Other tactics focus on the
individual. These include screening, counselling and drug therapy for people
with or at high risk of cardiovascular disease, screening for cervical cancer,
and hepatitis B immunization to prevent liver cancer. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Many countries have already adopted
these approaches, and have seen a marked reduction in disease incidence and
mortality. WHO monitored progress over ten years in 38 countries taking steps
to address cardiovascular disease at both the population and individual level:
all recorded a substantial decrease in exposure to risk, incidence of disease
and deaths. …”</span></font><br></p></div></div></div><br>