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NCD Countdown 2030: efficient pathways and strategic investments to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4 in low-income and middle-income countries
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Most countries have made little progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.4, which calls for a reduction in premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by a third from 2015 to 2030. In this Health Policy paper, we synthesise the evidence related to interventions that can reduce premature mortality from the major NCDs over the next decade and that are feasible to implement in countries at all levels of income. Our recommendations are intended as generic guidance to help 123 low-income and middle-income countries meet SDG target 3.4; country-level applications require additional analyses and consideration of the local implementation and utilisation context. Protecting current investments and scaling up these interventions is especially crucial in the context of COVID-19-related health system disruptions. We show how cost-effectiveness data and other information can be used to define locally tailored packages of interventions to accelerate rates of decline in NCD mortality. Under realistic implementation constraints, most countries could achieve (or almost achieve) the NCD target using a combination of these interventions; the greatest gains would be for cardiovascular disease mortality. Implementing the most efficient package of interventions in each world region would require, on average, an additional US$18 billion annually over 2023-30; this investment could avert 39 million deaths and generate an average net economic benefit of $2·7 trillion, or $390 per capita. Although specific clinical intervention pathways would vary across countries and regions, policies to reduce behavioural risks, such as tobacco smoking, harmful use of alcohol, and excess sodium intake, would be relevant in nearly every country, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the health gains of any locally tailored NCD package. By 2030, ministries of health would need to contribute about 20% of their budgets to high-priority NCD interventions. Our report concludes with a discussion of financing and health system implementation considerations and reflections on the NCD agenda beyond the SDG target 3.4 and beyond the SDG period.
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- Authors
- Watkins, D. A., Msemburi, W. T., Pickersgill, S. J., Kawakatsu, Y., Gheorghe, A., Dain, K., Johansson, K. A., Said, S., Renshaw, N., Tolla, M. T., Twea, P. D., Varghese, C., Chalkidou, K., Ezzati, M., & Norheim, O. F.
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- The Lancet
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- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-03
- Volume
- 399
- Issue
- 10331
- Pages
- 1266-1278
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- PMC
- PMC8947779
- OpenAlex
- W4220879962
- Cited by
- 213
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
- 2026: 39 · 2025: 52 · 2024: 57 · 2023: 54 · 2022: 11
- FWCI
- 7.17
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- journal article
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- en
- Open access
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- The Lancet (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- Medical Research Council (MR/V034057/1)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Healthcare Systems and Public Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Health and Epidemiology
- Keywords
- non-communicable diseases, premature mortality, Sustainable Development Goal 3.4, low- and middle-income countries, cost-effectiveness, cardiovascular mortality, intervention package, health care financing, tobacco control, hazardous drinking, sodium intake, behavioral risk factors, net economic benefit, health system implementation
- MeSH terms
- Noncommunicable Diseases, Sustainable Development, COVID-19, Developing Countries, Humans, Global Health
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