Human-Centric Health: Behaviour Change and the Prevention of NonCommunicable Diseases

January 1, 2017

The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – heart disease, mental illness, cancer, respiratory disorders and diabetes – is heaviest in high-income countries. However, it is growing at the fastest rate in low-income and middle-income countries, worsened by population ageing, urbanization and globalization of risk factors.

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