Challenges to the surveillance of non-communicable diseases - A review of selected approaches

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kroll, Mareike ^a   Phalkey, Revati K ^a,b   Kraas, Frauke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disease surveillance; Facility based surveillance; High income countries; Literature review; Low and middle income countries; Non communicable diseases; Sentinel surveillance

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84959469625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2570-z     Document Type: Article

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