The burden of non communicable diseases in developing countries

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Boutayeb, Abdesslam ^a,b   Boutayeb, Saber ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; PREDICTION; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 14544289581     PISSN: 14759276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-4-2     Document Type: Article

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