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Fighting NCDs Can Be Achieved With Low-Cost Interventions
In this Atlantic opinion piece, Amanda Glassman, director of Global Health Policy at the Center for Global Development (CGD), and Denizhan Duran, a research assistant at CGD, outline the macro- and microeconomic effects non-communicable diseases (NCDs) can have on countries and families, noting that "80 percent of NCD deaths occur in developing countries, mostly the middle-income countries." However, they write that NCDs "can be substantially reduced with simple, low or no-cost interventions," but "middle-income countries are not implementing these simple interventions at scale" for reasons that "have little to do with money."
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