Three Steps to Improve Management of Noncommunicable Diseases in Humanitarian Crises

Kiran Jobanputra; Philippa Boulle; Bayard Roberts; Pablo Perel

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002180

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Three Steps to Improve Management of Noncommunicable Diseases in Humanitarian Crises

Kiran Jobanputra ,

* E-mail: kiran.jobanputra@london.msf.org

Affiliation Manson Unit, Médecins sans Frontières, London, United Kingdom
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Philippa Boulle,

Affiliation Médecins sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5711-2631

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Bayard Roberts,

Affiliation ECOHOST- The Centre for Health and Social Change, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Pablo Perel

Affiliation Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Three Steps to Improve Management of Noncommunicable Diseases in Humanitarian Crises

Kiran Jobanputra,
Philippa Boulle,
Bayard Roberts,
Pablo Perel

Published: November 8, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002180

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