The global NCD target known as '25 by 25' commits member states to achieving:

• A 25% relative reduction in premature mortality from the four main NCDs by 2025 ✓
• B 25% absolute reduction in NCD incidence by 2025
• C 25% of the health budget allocated to NCDs by 2025
• D Screening of 25% of the adult population for NCDs by 2025

Explanation

The 25 by 25 target, adopted at the World Health Assembly in 2013, aims for a 25% relative reduction in overall premature mortality (deaths between ages 30 and 70 years) from cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases by 2025 compared with the 2010 baseline. It is a relative, not absolute, reduction in mortality, and it concerns premature deaths rather than incidence, budgets or screening coverage.

Reference: Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 27th ed.

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