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01-09-2020 | Public Health | Commentary
Commercial determinants of health: a proposed research agenda
Authors:
Nino Paichadze, Meghan Werbick, Paul Ndebele, Imran Bari, Adnan A. Hyder
Published in:
International Journal of Public Health
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Issue 7/2020
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Excerpt
In 2017, 45.5 million people died globally from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and more than 75% of these deaths occurred in the Global South (IHME
2019; WHO
2018). Economically, it is expected that mortality and disability attributed to NCDs will cost low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) $84 billion in just 10 years (Kickbusch
2015). It is imperative that the public health community takes action through research, intervention, and policy implementation to better understand and combat NCDs in order to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and contribute to a healthier population. …