As NCDs bring catastrophic economic consequences and greatly exacerbate poverty, their control must receive due importance to alleviate poverty and improve population health.
Prevention, early detection, and compliance with effective medication can save national health expenditure as NCDs require long-term care and bring catastrophic economic consequences for high out-of-pocket payments.
If this is true for this study, some of the deaths with ill-defined cause were due to NCD, and VA had underestimated, to an extent, incidence of NCD deaths, which bring catastrophic economic consequences for the family members.
"If this means a beginning of 'sanctions' against the D.P.R.K. touted by the U.S. and its followers, it will push the situation to an unpredictable phase and bring about catastrophic consequences," North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said today, using the initials for the country's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The sprawl of Texas is almost incomprehensible — it's the same distance from Houston, my home town, to El Paso as it is from Houston to Kansas City — and that sprawl means that rural clinic closures bring immediate and catastrophic consequences for poor women and women without cars.
It is not news that Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide sometimes worried about his company's dive into subprime mortgages; what is news is that as early as 2004, he was predicting that "the unprecedented stretching of all aspects of credit standards could cause a bump in the road that could bring with it catastrophic consequences," according to a Mozilo e-mail released by the F.C.I.C.
Not merely the endless folly of the Iraq War for America and Iraq, but all the other catastrophic consequences it brought, including midwifing the birth of ISIS — that permanent answer to the question, What could possibly be worse than Saddam Hussein?
His concerns are mirrored in the unusually strong language of a World Bank report on China's water situation that foresees "catastrophic consequences for future generations" unless water use and supply can quickly be brought back into balance.
Factories and coal-fired power plants were bringing economic prosperity but also dumping waste products into the nation's water and air with catastrophic consequences.
Non-treatment can have catastrophic consequences.
