In the WHO's 2008-2013 action plan for the global strategy for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, we see that the four diseases not only share four risk factors - unhealthy diets, tobacco use, physical inactivity and the harmful use of alcohol - but represent a considerable burden especially on low- and middle-income countries.
These four diseases are reported to represent "a leading threat to human health and development" and WHO indicates that they are the world's biggest killers, causing an estimated 35 million deaths each year which is about 60 per cent global deaths. About 80 per cent of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.
Tobacco and alcohol
If you take a look again at the four risk factors quoted above, you will have to agree that these diseases are largely preventable - we don't have to use tobacco, eat unhealthy diet, drink too much alcohol or sit around all day. In fact, the WHO stated that as much as 80 per cent of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes and more than a third of cancers are preventable when individual focus on eliminating the four risk factors.
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