The rise of non-communicable disease is driven primarily by tobacco use, physical inactivity, harmful alcohol use and unhealthy diets, and structural factors including poverty, air pollution, lack of education and gender inequity act synergistically to amplify it; the source states NCD risk factors are disproportionately prevalent among disadvantaged populations.

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  the rise of NCDs has been driven primarily by tobacco use, physical inactivity, harmful use of alcohol, and unhealthy diets (World Health Organization [2013\)](#page-19-0), which reflect individual choices, but many structural factors, such as poverty, air pollution, lack of education and gender inequity, and others, as highlighted by the SDGs (United Nations [2017](#page-19-0)) act synergistically to amplify this rise (Niessen et al. [2018\)](#page-18-0). Such NCD risk factors are disproportionately prevalent among disadvantaged populations

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