Development at risk: Addressing noncommunicable diseases at the United Nations high-level meeting

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Alwan, Ala Din ^a   Galea, Gauden ^a   Stuckler, David ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET; DISABILITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEADERSHIP; NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960980267     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.11.091074     Document Type: Editorial

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