Acknowledgements

 

A number of people contributed to the development of this collection and we would like to thank them for their comments and advice.

The essays in this collection have been produced independently by the contributing authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Health Foundation. Errors and omissions remain the responsibility of the authors alone.

There is a pressing need to step up global and national action on non-communicable diseases, and the factors that put so many people at risk of illness and death from these conditions worldwide... action that is led by the highest levels of government and that inserts health concerns into all policy making – from trade and finance to education, environment, and urban planning.

Tabaré Ramón Vázquez, President of Uruguay

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, the World Health Organization


* Vázquez TR, Ghebreyesus TA. Beating NCDs can help deliver universal health coverage. The Lancet. 2017;390:1,010. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32470-4

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