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Chapter 4 Reducing risks and preventing disease: population-wide interventions47 Chapter 4 Reducing risks and preventing disease: population-wide interventions The global epidemic of NCDs can be reversed through modest investments in interventions. Some effective approaches are so low in cost that country income levels need not be a major barrier to successful prevention. What is needed are high levels of commitment, good planning, community mobilization and intense focus on a small range of critical actions. With these, quick gains will be achieved in reducing the major behavioural risk factors: tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity, together with key risk factors for cancer, notably some chronic Chapter demonstrates that best practices exist in many
Chapter 4 – Reducing risks and preventing disease: population-wide interventions 48 Increases in taxes on and prices of tobacco products are by far the best buys in …
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