Improving responsiveness of health systems to non-communicable diseases

The Lancet

Volumn 381, Issue 9867, 2013, Pages 690-697

  Atun, Rifat ^a   Jaffar, Shabbar ^b   Nishtar, Sania ^c   Knaul, Felicia M ^d   Barreto, Mauricio L ^e   Nyirenda, Moffat ^f   Banatvala, Nicholas ^g   Piot, Peter ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Heartfile Pakistan   (Pakistan)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^g WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SCREENING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MORBIDITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84874432529     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60063-X     Document Type: Note

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