Health situation in the South-East Asia Region: challenges for the next decade.
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a World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. b Department of Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Jai P Narain (email: [email protected]) The South-East Asia (SEA) Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), home to 26% of the world population and to 40% of the world’s poor, is in the middle of a rapid economic, demographic and epidemiological transition. It suffers disproportionately from the high burden of communicable and emerging noncommunicable diseases in the background of relatively poor health infrastructure. Clearly, progress in global health is not possible without a significant improvement in the WHO South-East Asia Region.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- WHO South-East Asia journal of public health
دوره 1 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012