Community health workers for non-communicable diseases

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2014, Pages e567-

  Neupane, Dinesh ^a   Kallestrup, Per ^a   McLachlan, Craig S ^b   Perry, Henry ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b University of New South Wales Rural Clinical School   (Australia)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84907276598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70303-1     Document Type: Letter

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