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D. Bloom, E. Cafiero-Fonseca, M. McGovern, K. Prettner:
"China and India´s Decent into Chronic Disease: Killing Themselves Slowly";
The Milken Institute Review, Second Quarter 2014 (2014), 2; 24 - 33.

The world has experienced a public-health miracle in the past half century, as cleaner water, new health technologies, better diet and a host of other improvements have sharply reduced mortality and extended life expectancy in poor countries by as much as 20 years. A substantial portion of those gains has been realized through improvements in infant and child survival. However, the increase in income that was both a cause and effect of this miracle brought with it a new and ironic threat: a steep rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like heart ailments and cancer.