The 2011 United Nations high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases: The Africa agenda calls for a 5-by-5 approach

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 77-79

  Mensah, George A ^a   Mayosi, Bongani M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INFECTION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VACCINATION;

AFRICA; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84873266738     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.6347     Document Type: Article

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