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Not only do fewer cases occur, but the NCD cases that do tend to be less severe, and to progress more slowly than was previously the case.
This is the paradox of NCDs: objective measures of poor health (severe symptoms, disability, premature death) are declining, even as the prevalence of these diseases is increasing.
A greater focus on prevention can both reduce the incidence of NCDs and ensure that those cases that continue to occur will tend to be less severe and will progress more slowly, allowing scope for inexpensive but effective treatment in primary-care settings.
But the country is now being roiled by a political crisis so severe that international advisories are cautioning against travel there.
But the damage caused by then could be severe.
This twin deficit has taken a severe toll on foreigners' confidence in the fundamental health of the US economy--and hence on the external value of the dollar.
With cases of severe respiratory illness piling up, Whitman now admits that the statement was wrong.
In fact, much investment has been wasted: Huge new apartment blocks in some third-tier cities will never be occupied, and heavy-industry sectors such as steel and cement now suffer from severe overcapacity.
Two key elements of European integration – the euro and border-free travel within the Schengen Area – were placed under severe strain.
In fact, Germany has already enacted a law that will impose severe fines on platforms that do not remove illegal user content in a timely fashion.
Today, Tunisia and Egypt are experiencing severe economic crises.
Especially in times of crisis – and a sharp fall in US imports would imply a much more severe crisis for Asian and European exporters than it would for the US – the dollar is a currency that you run to, not from.
“[T]he provisions of the Brazilian Amnesty Law that prevent the investigation and sanctioning of severe human rights violations,” the tribunal ruled, are “incompatible with the American Convention.”
On the other hand, it has put transplant ethics under severe strain.
Last October, the Lancet Commission on Palliative Care and Pain Relief issued an impressive 64-page report arguing that relieving severe pain is a “global health and equity imperative.”
We should recall that the first era of globalization, which reached its peak in the decades before World War I, eventually produced an even more severe political backlash.
Today, though oil prices remain high, Russia’s budget and financial system face severe problems over the next 2-3 years.
But entitlements for the elderly, Social Security and Medicare, threaten severe fiscal imbalances later in the next century.
The result has been utter failure: military defeat and a severe degradation of America’s moral standing.
If the eurozone economy were to face a severe shock today, it would be unprepared.
In fact, severe constraints on economic policy’s potential to support growth have made political pressure on central banks inevitable.
India is facing severe difficulties as well, but of a different nature.
Rising interest rates, high inflation, and severe policy gridlock amid a spate of government corruption scandals have impeded both foreign and domestic investment in India, thus slowing economic growth to a level that is below its potential.
Indeed, the 2009 European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey found that Roma experience more severe discrimination than any other ethnic-minority group in Europe.
In all the major countries, this resulted in defaults, significant and continuous exchange-rate adjustments, and, by the end of the decade, a severe inflation/devaluation spiral, bordering, in some cases, on hyperinflation.
This, together with external shocks and severe recessions, made fixed exchange-rate regimes untenable, first in Mexico, later in Brazil, and then, spectacularly, in Argentina.
The current vaccine prevents severe TB in infants, but not the most prevalent pulmonary TB in all age groups.
The weight of the water impounded in the dam’s massive reservoir was said to have triggered severe tectonic stresses, or what scientists call reservoir-triggered seismicity.
Nearly a month later, however, all the demonetization drive has achieved is severe economic disruption.
Dying to LiveFREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE – I was a young medical officer working at the Emergency Unit of the Ola During Children’s Hospital in Sierra Leone when I advised the mother of a child with severe malaria to tell a blatant lie.
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