NCD Countdown 2030: pathways to achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4.

ABSTRACT: The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.4 is to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by a third by 2030 relative to 2015 levels, and to promote mental health and wellbeing. We used data on cause-specific mortality to characterise the risk and trends in NCD mortality in each country and evaluate combinations of reductions in NCD causes of death that can achieve SDG target 3.4. Among NCDs, ischaemic heart disease is responsible for the highest risk of premature death in more than half of all countries for women, and more than three-quarters for men. However, stroke, other cardiovascular diseases, and some cancers are associated with a similar risk, and in many countries, a higher risk of premature death than ischaemic heart disease. Although premature mort

SUBMITTER: NCD Countdown 2030 collaborators 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7470795 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature