Emerging non-communicable disease epidemic in Africa: Preventive measures from the WHO Regional Office for Africa

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 521-526

  Mufunda, Jacob ^a   Chatora, Rufaro ^c   Ndambakuwa, Yustina ^d   Nyarango, Peter ^a   Kosia, Andrew ^b   Chifamba, Jephat ^e   Filipe, Antoinie ^c   Usman, Abdulmumini ^b   Sparks, V Harvey ^f  

^a Orotta School of Medicine   (Eritrea)

^b WHO Country Representative ^*  (Eritrea)

^c WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA   (Congo)

^d Anchor Trust   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN AREA;

AFRICA; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; RURAL HEALTH; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33845534604     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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