Badri G. Narayanan
The objective of this study is to identify the social and economic impact of four non-communicable diseases (NCDs) — diabetes, depression, Alzheimer’s and hypertension — in the United States, Mexico and India, as well as globally. The academic and policy research literature in this area is fairly mature and we achieve this objective by a thorough review of the literature and undertaking further calculations and estimations. The second section of the paper focuses on methodology, while the third section explains the results, providing an overview and some discussion on the demographic variations of the social and economic impact of NCDs. The fourth section provides a very brief conclusion.