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
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...
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Main Authors: | Elizabeth Dean (Author), Margot Skinner (Author), Homer Peng-Ming Yu (Author), Alice YM Jones (Author), Rik Gosselink (Author), Anne Söderlund (Author) |
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2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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