Screening for noncommunicable disease risk factors at a workplace in India: A physiotherapy initiative in a healthcare setting

• Glavni autori: Aditi Ravindra Ketkar, MPT (Autor), Sundar Kumar Veluswamy, MPTh, PhD (Autor), Nivedita Prabhu, MPT (Autor), Arun Gundmi Maiya, PhD (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: World Scientific Publishing, 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
• Online pristup: Connect to this object online.

Background: Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) account for two-thirds of all deaths globally. Physiotherapists have the requisite expertise to initiate and lead NCD risk factor screening and prevention programmes. The workplace can provide an ideal setting for physiotherapists to screen for risk factor...