The Millennium Development Goals were created to provide both assistance and a roadmap for less developed countries. Recently, the World Health Organisation proposed an additional effort to reduce the burden of chronic disease by 2%; particularly in less developed countries. However, this new effort is directly at odds with the Millennium Development Goals. This disparity, along with the projection that populations in developed countries will incur the greatest increase in chronic diseases, suggests that the more developed countries should be the focus of the proposed effort to reduced chronic disease.
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