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

• Main Authors: Elizabeth Dean (Author), Margot Skinner (Author), Homer Peng-Ming Yu (Author), Alice YM Jones (Author), Rik Gosselink (Author), Anne Söderlund (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: AIMS Press, 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: 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...