India's Price for Public Health Neglect
India faces a whopping US$6.2 trillion bill over the years 2012-2020 in economic losses from non-communicable diseases, many of which would be preventable with proper care - equivalent to nearly nine times the country's health expenditure during the previous 19 years.
The figure comes from a recent study of economic losses by the Harvard School of Public…
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