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

• Main Authors: Mareike Kroll (Author), Revati Phalkey (Author), Sayani Dutta (Author), Sharvari Shukla (Author), Carsten Butsch (Author), Erach Bharucha (Author), Frauke Kraas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...