Ebrahim, S;
Pearce, N;
Smeeth, L;
Casas, JP;
Jaffar, S;
Piot, P;
(2013)
Tackling non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: is the evidence from high-income countries all we need?
PLoS Medicine
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, Article e1001377. 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001377.
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Abstract
Applied health research and development for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is limited, and despite repeat calls for action, the NCD burden is increasing unchecked. NCD research in high-income countries (HICs) and LMICs can result in mutual advantages in the areas of replication and extending findings; discovering new causes of NCDs; studying health effects of exposures rare or ubiquitous in HICs; and exploring links between infectious diseases and NCDs. Different NCDs are at varying stages of needing research, policy development, and action. These stages range from not knowing the population burden of many NCDs to knowing all we need to take action. Changes in the global and national funding agendas will be required to strengthen the research and health system capacity for NCDs, which should reduce deaths and disability attributable to NCDs and yield economic dividends.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Tackling non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: is the evidence from high-income countries all we need? |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001377 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001377 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 Ebrahim et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. PMCID: PMC3558465 |
| Keywords: | Developed Countries, Developing Countries, Disease, Humans, Income, Research |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1411649 |
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