Commentary: the global health multiplier: targeting common social causes of infectious and non-communicable diseases.

@article{Stuckler2013CommentaryTG,
  title={Commentary: the global health multiplier: targeting common social causes of infectious and non-communicable diseases.},
  author={David Stuckler and Martin Mckee and Sanjay Basu},
  journal={International journal of epidemiology},
  year={2013},
  volume={42 1},
  pages={
          232-4
        }
}
The article by Remais and colleagues elegantly summarizes the emerging, concurrent burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and infectious diseases in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs), its significant human impact, and its consequent social, economic, and political effects. We explore further their described ‘worst of two worlds’ scenario, with particular respect to a new, paradigm of epidemiologic transition, involving the three-way interaction between communicable tuberculosis (TB… 
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