Non-Communicable Diseases in Emergencies: A Call to Action
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Non-Communicable Diseases in Emergencies: A Call to Action
Recent years have demonstrated the devastating health consequences of complex emergencies and natural disasters and thereby highlighted the importance of comprehensive and collaborative approaches to humanitarian responses and risk reduction. Simultaneously, noncommunicable diseases are now recognised as a real and growing threat to population health and development; a threat that is magnified ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Currents
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2157-3999
DOI: 10.1371/currents.dis.53e08b951d59ff913ab8b9bb51c4d0de