Prevention and control of rheumatic heart disease: Overcoming core challenges in resource-poor environments

• Main Authors: Scott Dougherty (Author), Andrea Beaton (Author), Bruno R Nascimento (Author), Liesl J Zühlke (Author), Maziar Khorsandi (Author), Nigel Wilson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) has long receded as a significant threat to public health in high-income countries. In low-resource settings, however, the specter of RHD remains unabated, as exemplified by recent data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study. There are many complex reasons for this on...