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The global epidemic of non-communicable diseases, driven largely by hypertension, requires cost-effective and affordable health system responses, particularly in low-to-middle-income countries.
Highlights the global burden of non-communicable diseases, particularly hypertension, and the need for cost-effective health system responses.
Globally, health systems are struggling to deliver universal health coverage in the context of a global epidemic of non-communicable disease and a paucity of public resources to respond to it. According to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study, hypertension has become the most important risk factor.1 Although the areas with the largest burden of non-communicable diseases are still middle-to-high-income countries, the rate of increase is fastest in low-to-middle-income countries.2
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Barbara McPake (2019) conducted an editorial in Non-communicable diseases and hypertension. The global epidemic of non-communicable diseases, driven largely by hypertension, requires cost-effective and affordable health system responses, particularly in low-to-middle-income countries.
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