World's leading scientists join forces to set priority interventions to save 36 million lives from non-communicable diseases

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The all three deaths are responsible for two NCDs (non-communicable diseases), in particular heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases, and the death toll is rising. A landmark global Alliance of leading scientists and four world's largest NGOs evidence from a 5-year collaboration with almost 100 which combines world-class NCD experts and proposes a list of five priorities against this growing global crisis to. Reduction of tobacco and salt use, improving the nutrition and physical activity, dangerous alcohol consumption reduce and achieving universal access to essential drugs and technology low cost of implementation and political and financial feasibility have been chosen for their impact on the health, cost efficiency,.

Only 5 months before the UN High level meeting (HLM) on NCDs, only the second of its kind, is a global disease issue and with the potential of promoting the action global as well as at national level, the Lancet NCD action group and the NCD Alliance * a series of commitments online first in the Lancet, that she would like to start from the session.

"The most important result of the UN HLM on NCDs the NCD are sustainable and strong high-level political support for a framework of specific commitments to tackle crisis", the authors explain. The aim is to reduce NCD death rates, which are an estimated 36 million deaths averted more than 10 years of 2% per year.

In spite of numerous national and international policies, strategies and plans for NCDs were slowly-partly, say the authors, because of the "pressing nature" of other global health progress.

The authors ask in the lead up to the UN meeting, heads of State and Governments to commit, a coordinated set of possible actions and interventions can be designed for specific and time-controlled targets and indicators, and against which progress can be measured.

The must, top priority be to reduce tobacco consumption, followed by reduction in salt intake, the authors say. The key to the success of this intervention are the accelerated implementation of the framework Convention on tobacco control (FCTC) to achieve the proposed objective, "a world largely free of tobacco by 2040", where less than 5% of the population used tobacco; to achieve this goal would at least 5.5 million premature deaths prevent more than 10 years.

By the year 2025, it would like to see salt intake reduced to less than 5 g per person. You suggest that the global salt consumption could substitution only 15% by the mass media campaigns and reformulation of processed foods, and salt in only 10 years prevent an estimated 8.5 million deaths.

Importantly, the cost of these interventions are the authors, small, say. Less than 50 US cents per person per year in countries such as India and China will implement the annual cost of tobacco and salt. The total package of priority measures requires a new global commitment of about $9 billion per year.

Key to the immediate delivery of these interventions is a series of priority actions plan broad political leadership on highest level of national and international support for the strengthening of health systems (with a strong focus on primary health care), building international cooperation and consensus on priority actions (especially primary prevention), and establishment of independent monitoring and accountability mechanisms to evaluate progress.

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The Lancet NCD action group is an informal collaboration of scientists, practitioners and civil society organisations. The NCD Alliance consists of four major international NGOs the International Diabetes Federation International Union against tuberculosis and lung disease, Union for international cancer control and the World Heart Foundation, is 880 member associations in 170 countries.

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