Non-communicable diseases in South Asia: contemporary perspectives
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The World Health Organization (WHO) stated in 2002 that “in many regions, some of the most formidable enemies of health are joining forces with the allies of poverty to impose a double burden of disease, disability and premature death in many millions of people.” This is what is happening in South Asia, which has one quarter of the global population but where about half the population lives bel...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Medical Bulletin
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0007-1420,1471-8391
DOI: 10.1093/bmb/ldu018