Addressing the growing burden of non-communicable disease by leveraging lessons from infectious disease management

J Glob Health. 2016 Jun;6(1):010304. doi: 10.7189/jogh.06.010304.

Authors

Peter Piot¹, Aya Caldwell², Peter Lamptey³, Moffat Nyrirenda⁴, Sunil Mehra⁵, Kathy Cahill⁶, Ann Aerts⁷

Affiliations

¹ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
² Innovative Healthcare Delivery Solutions, Novartis Foundation, Basel, Switzerland.
³ Family Health International 360, Accra, Ghana.
⁴ Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit, Malawi.
⁵ MAMTA Health Institute for Mother and Child, India.
⁶ PATH, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁷ Novartis Foundation, Basel, Switzerland.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Chronic Disease / mortality
Chronic Disease / prevention & control*
Chronic Disease / therapy
Communicable Diseases
Developing Countries
Disease Management*
Global Health
Humans
Mortality / trends
Risk Factors