Chapter 2

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Chapter 2 NCDs and development Chapter 2. NCDs and development Noncommunicable diseases have potentially serious socioeconomic consequences, through increasing individual and household impoverishment and hindering social and economic development. This Poverty is closely Chapter examines the relationship between NCDs and socioeconomic conditions. It demonstrates linked with NCDs, that the distribution and impact of NCDs and their risk factors is highly inequitable and imposes a and the rapid disproportionately large burden on low- and middle-income countries. Poverty is closely linked with rise in NCDs NCDs, and the rapid rise in the magnitude of these health problems is therefore predicted to impede poverty reduction initiatives in low-income countries and communities.

Chapter 2 – NCDs and development 33 Chapter 2 NCDs and development Noncommunicable diseases have potentially serious socioeconomic consequences, through increasing

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