Better health and wellbeing for billion more people: integrating non-communicable diseases in primary care

Cherian Varghese; Baridalyne Nongkynrih; Igho Onakpoya; Marcy McCall; Shannon Barkley; Téa E Collins

doi:10.1136/bmj.l327

Better health and wellbeing for billion more people: integrating non-communicable diseases in primary care

BMJ. 2019 Jan 28:364:l327. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l327.

Authors

Cherian Varghese¹, Baridalyne Nongkynrih², Igho Onakpoya³, Marcy McCall³, Shannon Barkley⁴, Téa E Collins⁴

Affiliations

¹ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland varghesec@who.int.
² Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
³ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁴ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Abstract

Cherian Varghese and colleagues describe a model to improve equitable access to good quality health services for non-communicable diseases within primary healthcare

MeSH terms

Cost of Illness
Cost-Benefit Analysis / methods
Delivery of Health Care / economics*
Delivery of Health Care / standards
Humans
Noncommunicable Diseases / economics*
Noncommunicable Diseases / epidemiology
Primary Health Care / standards*

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International