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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its pledge to leave no one behind, is our boldest agenda for humanity. It will require equally bold actions from Heads of State and Government. They must deliver on their time-bound promise to reduce, by one-third, premature mortality from NCDs through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and wellbeing. Reducing NCDs globally: the under-recognised role of environmental risk factorsThis month, the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) published a set of recommendations to accelerate progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Target 3.4 for reducing NCDs by 2030.1 Unfortunately, this globally important report had a major omission: recognising the detrimental role of environmental risk factors, beyond the conventional behavioural factors (tobacco and alcohol use, physical inactivity, and unhealthy diet), in enhancing global NCD burden and health inequality. Full-Text PDF Getting to the heart of non-communicable diseasesAs we mourn the loss of our treasured author, reviewer, and International Advisory Board member Bongani Mayosi, whose contribution to the field of cardiology on the African continent was virtually unparalleled, we recall that cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death and disability globally. If their sheer burden is remarkable—they cause one in three deaths worldwide—so is the fact that some of their main risk factors—smoking, an unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity, and excessive alcohol consumption—are largely avoidable. Full-Text PDF Open AccessResponse to the growing dementia burden must be fasterAccording to 2017 estimates from WHO, nearly 50 million people are living with dementia, and by 2030 the number is expected to reach 82 million. As this figure grows, so too will the need for support and care for people with dementia, which is projected to cost US$ 2 trillion globally by 2030. The need to prepare for and try to prevent some of this personal and financial burden has received increasing attention, most notably with adoption by the World Health Assembly last year of the WHO global action plan on dementia . Full-Text PDF

Time to deliver: report of the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs