Addressing the growing burden of non–communicable disease by leveraging lessons from infectious disease management
Despite advances in decreasing morbidity and mortality associated with infectious diseases and poor maternal– and child–health low– and middle–income countries now face an additional burden with the inexorable rise of non–communicable diseases.
Main Authors: | Peter Piot 1, Aya Caldwell 2, Peter Lamptey 3, Moffat Nyrirenda 4, Sunil Mehra 5, Kathy Cahill 6, Ann Aerts 7 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Edinburgh University Global Health Society
2016-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Global Health |
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Online Access: | http://www.jogh.org/documents/issue201601/jogh-06-010304.pdf |
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