IMPE Abstracts

The inequitable and preventable morbidity and mortality experienced by children and young people living with endocrine conditions and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) of childhood in resource poor settings is well recognised. Indeed, Member States acknowledged at the 66th World Health Assembly in 2013 that "Children can die from treatable non-communicable diseases, such as rheumatic heart disease, type 1 diabetes, asthma, and leukaemia, if health prom...