Monitoring and accountability for the Pacific response to the non-communicable diseases crisis

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Tolley, Hilary ^a   Snowdon, Wendy ^b   Wate, Jillian ^c   Durand, A Mark ^d   Vivili, Paula ^e   McCool, Judith ^a   Novotny, Rachel ^f   Dewes, Ofa ^a   Hoy, Damian ^e   Bell, Colin ^g   Richards, Nicola ^h   Swinburn, Boyd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b World Health Organisation   (Fiji)

^c FIJI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Fiji)

^d Pacific Islands Health Care System   (United States)

^e Pacific Community   (New Caledonia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dashboard; Monitoring and accountability; Non communicable diseases; Pacific; Policy

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRENDS;

CAPACITY BUILDING; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 84992220318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3614-8     Document Type: Article

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