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Sustainable financing: the Achilles heel of the non-communicable diseases response

2015; Elsevier BV; Volume: 3; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s2213-8587(15)00393-9

2213-8595

Katie Dain,

Global Health Care Issues

In the past few years, the UN and governments worldwide have increasingly recognised the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as one of the major health and development challenges of the 21st century. 1 United Nations General AssemblyPolitical declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases. http://www.who.int/nmh/events/un_ncd_summit2011/political_declaration_en.pdfDate: Sept 19, 2011 Google Scholar The inclusion of a target to reduce NCD premature mortality in the adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2 United Nations General AssemblyTransforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/70/L.1&referer=/english/&Lang=EDate: Sept 18, 2015 Google Scholar is an unequivocal sign of this recognition: NCDs are now firmly on the agenda. However, unlike other health issues, political commitment has yet to translate into sustainable and adequate resources. Turning big data into personalised diabetes careResearchers are beginning to harness the power of big data to improve research and care for patients with diabetes. Dara Mohammadi reports. Full-Text PDF