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Validity of Measures for Chronic Disease in African Settings (2021)

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui (Author)

UCL Press
Pages: 181-211
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

URI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv14t4769.12

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Health risk assessment Medical statistics Developing countries Chronic diseases 21st century 20th century Africa World Health Organization (WHO)

The global health community has gradually been turning its attention toward chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).¹ However, as Sanuade explains in the next chapter, the lack of well-established NCD surveys, disease registries, cohort studies and complete health facility data has meant that the data available to understand chronic NCDs, their risk factors and appropriate interventions in these settings are limited. There have been recent attempts to fill in these data gaps. The World Health Organization (WHO) has implemented World Health Surveys, Stepwise Approach to Surveillance (STEPS) and the longitudinal Study on Global Ageing and Adult

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