International Medical Mission Facing Global Increase of Chronic Disease: 2-Year Experience in Bangladesh
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International Medical Mission Facing Global Increase of Chronic Disease: 2-Year Experience in Bangladesh
Specialists of developing countries are facing the epidemic growth of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). From 2011 to 2013, I, as a Korean volunteer doctor, had been working in a local primary healthcare center in Bangladesh, assessing rates of NCDs. Proportion of patients with NCDs was increased from 74.96% in 1999 to 83.05% in 2012, particularly due to the spreading of diabetes mellitus, cardio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Korean Medical Science
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1011-8934,1598-6357
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2016.31.2.326