Noncommunicable diseases and injuries: Action needed in South Asia too [6]

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 0192-0193

  Khuwaja, Ali Khan ^a   Qureshi, Riaz ^a   Fatmi, Zafar ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INJURY; LETTER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; SMOKING CESSATION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; AGING; ASIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESTYLE; NOTE; OBESITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGING; ASIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE STYLE; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33846668842     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040038     Document Type: Letter

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