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

• Main Authors: Peter Piot 1 (Author), Aya Caldwell 2 (Author), Peter Lamptey 3 (Author), Moffat Nyrirenda 4 (Author), Sunil Mehra 5 (Author), Kathy Cahill 6 (Author), Ann Aerts 7 (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Despite advances in decreasing morbidity and mortality associated with infectious diseases and poor maternal- and child-health low- and middle-income countries now face an additional burden with the inexorable rise of non-communicable diseases.