Global burden of non-communicable diseases - why prevalence is not a comprehensive measure
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Towards a 'global' Strategy for Tackling the Global Burden of Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases in Resourse Limited Settings.
The global burden of communicable diseases (CD) and non-communicable diseases (NCD) in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) likely stems from a common substratum of societal and system inadequacies. In order to appropriately control these conditions and to manage the determinants and deterrents of both CDs and NCDs related deaths and disabilities, joint strategies aimed at both systemic and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiological Research
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2377-9330,2377-9306
DOI: 10.5430/jer.v3n1p10