Involving private healthcare practitioners in an urban NCD sentinel surveillance system: lessons learned from Pune, India

Involving private healthcare practitioners in an urban NCD sentinel surveillance system: lessons learned from Pune, India

Background: Despite the rising impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on public health in India, lack of quality data and routine surveillance hampers the planning process for NCD prevention and control. Current surveillance programs focus largely on communicable diseases and do not adequately i...

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Main Authors: Kroll, Mareike, Phalkey, Revati, Dutta, Sayani, Shukla, Sharvari, Butsch, Carsten, Bharucha, Erach, Kraas, Frauke
Format: Article
Published: Co-Action Publishing 2016
Subjects:
sentinel surveillance system; non-communicable disease; private healthcare sector; low- and middle-income countries; research to policy
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38496/

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