Introducing the PLOS special collection of economic cases for NCD prevention and control: A global perspective.
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease, are responsible for seven out of every 10 deaths worldwide.While NCDs are associated with aging in high-income countries, this representation is often misleading.Over one-third of the 41 million annual deaths from NCDs occur prematurely, defin