Successful up-scaled population interventions to reduce risk factors for non-communicable disease in adults: results from the International Community Interventions for Health (CIH) Project in China, India and Mexico.

Successful up-scaled population interventions to reduce risk factors for non-communicable disease in adults: results from the International Community Interventions for Health (CIH) Project in China, India and Mexico.

BACKGROUND:Non-communicable disease (NCD) is increasing rapidly in low and middle-income countries (LMIC), and is associated with tobacco use, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity. There is little evidence for up-scaled interventions at the population level to reduce risk in LMIC. METHODS:The Comm...

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Main Authors: Pamela A Dyson, Denis Anthony, Brenda Fenton, Denise E Stevens, Beatriz Champagne, Li-Ming Li, Jun Lv, Jorge Ramírez Hernández, K R Thankappan, David R Matthews, Community Interventions for Health (CIH) collaboration
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4395351?pdf=render

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