Tackling Africa's chronic disease burden: From the local to the global

Globalization and Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  de Graft Aikins, Ama ^a   Unwin, Nigel ^b   Agyemang, Charles ^c   Allotey, Pascale ^d   Campbell, Catherine ^e   Arhinful, Daniel ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^f University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PATIENT; COMMUNITY CARE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY STRESS; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL CARE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NOTE; PARASITOSIS; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK REDUCTION; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77950941716     PISSN: 17448603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-6-5     Document Type: Note

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