Severe symptoms of poor health are declining, even as chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes are on the increase.The problem is real. The paradox is an artifact of definition.
Their very language- "NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE" points out the bias at the core: They buy into the Non-Infectious Assumption. That they have found all the important pathogens and the remaining diseases we have are genetic and environmental.
If they looked a little closer, they would see that many of the very diseases they say are "non-communicable" are low-level chronic forms of the communicable ones they have so proudly "controlled".
Their methods of acute care actually create chronic disease. Their solution is literally the cause of the problem.
Paradox squared.
