List of Illustrations and Tables

Fig. 1.1

Prevalence of CDs and NCDs by World Bank country income categories.

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Fig. 1.2

Deaths from CDs and NCDs by World Bank country income categories.

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Fig. 1.3

Cost-effectiveness plane.

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Fig. 2.1

Ministry of Health Organization and consequences for NCD Units.

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Fig. 2.2

NCDs ranked by proportion of interviews in which they were mentioned.

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Fig. 2.3

Timeline of milestones in NCD action from 1990–2019.

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Fig. 3.1

Systematic thinking for Evidence-based and Efficient Decision-making (SEED) Tool.

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Fig. 3.2

Hierarchy of evidence. Source: Modified from New Evidence Pyramid.

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Table 4.1

WHO’s list of Best Buys on NCD preventions.

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Table 4.2

Summary of the collected case studies.

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Table 4.3

Additional considerations for making and judging Best Buy NCD preventive policies.

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Table 4.3

(continued) Additional considerations for making and judging Best Buy NCD preventive policies.

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Fig. 5.1

Wasted Buys on a cost-effectiveness plane.

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Fig. 5.2

Normal distribution of countries benefitting from international guidelines.

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Fig. 6.1

The growth of cost-per-DALY-averted studies. Source: Author’s analysis of Tufts Medical Center Global Health Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) Registry (www.ghcearegistry.org).

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Fig. 6.2

Geographic distributions of available cost-per-DALY-averted studies for non-communicable diseases. Source: Author’s analysis of Tufts Medical Center Global Health CEA Registry (www.ghcearegistry.org).

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Fig. 6.3

Decision chart for assessing transferability and evidence review.

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Table 6.1

Transferability assessment checklist.

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Table 6.2

Assessing transferability of Best Buy interventions for diabetes prevention and management.

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Fig. 7.1

Types of study design.

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Fig. 7.2

Hierarchy of evidence synthesis.

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Fig. 9.1

Three different forms of evidence.

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Table 9.1

Principles of good governance for HTA.

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