Long-term Impacts of Leading Chronic Diseases in Low- and Middle-income Countries: a Comparative Analysis

David Stuckler and Derek Yach

Chapter 12 in Health and Development, 2009, pp 199-216 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 2008 more than 31 million people will die from four leading chronic diseases — heart disease, respiratory diseases, diabetes, and common cancers.2 Nearly 80 per cent of these deaths will occur in low- and middle-income countries, where these chronic diseases claim around 80 per cent more lives than the infectious causes put together.3 Over the past decade rises in chronic diseases have been most greatly concentrated in developing countries, and have outpaced some of the original Global Burden of Disease ‘pessimistic scenario’ forecasts.

Keywords: Chronic Disease; Foreign Direct Investment; Poor Country; Rich Country; Market Integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230581982_12

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