World Bank and Access Accelerated China Collaboration Promotes Knowledge Sharing About Health Care Reform

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have become the major – and growing – contributors to death and disability worldwide. China is no exception, particularly as it increasingly faces many of the same challenges that high-income countries face, such as high-risk behaviors like smoking, sedentary lifestyles and alcohol consumption and air pollution.

Indeed, a 2016 joint study by the World Bank Group, the World Health Organization and Chinese government agencies called NCDs “China’s number one health threat.”  The study reported that NCDs – which include cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes – are responsible annually for more than 85% of Chinese deaths and 77% of the loss in healthy life, “a profile similar to that of most OECD countries.”

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