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Tracing Africa’s progress towards implementing the Non-Communicable Diseases Global action plan 2013–2020: a synthesis of WHO country profile reports

BACKGROUND: Half of the estimated annual 28 million non-communicable diseases (NCDs) deaths in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are attributed to weak health systems. Current health policy responses to NCDs are fragmented and vertical particularly in the African region. The World Health Orga...

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Autores principales:	Nyaaba, Gertrude Nsorma, Stronks, Karien, de-Graft Aikins, Ama, Kengne, Andre Pascal, Agyemang, Charles
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2017
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382491/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28381252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4199-6

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