Why COVID-19 strengthens the case to scale up assault on non-communicable diseases: role of health professionals including physical therapists in mitigating pandemic waves

• Glavni autori: Elizabeth Dean (Autor), Margot Skinner (Autor), Homer Peng-Ming Yu (Autor), Alice YM Jones (Autor), Rik Gosselink (Autor), Anne Söderlund (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: AIMS Press, 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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As SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, spread globally, the most severely affected sub-populations were the elderly and those with multi-morbidity largely related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), e.g., heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, obesity. NCDs are largely preventabl...