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ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2019

Integrating noncommunicable disease services into primary health care, Botswana.

Neo M Tapela, Gontse Tshisimogo, Bame P Shatera, Virginia Letsatsi, Moagi Gaborone, Tebogo Madidimalo, Martins Ovberedjo, Haruna B Jibril, Billy Tsima, Oathokwa Nkomazana and 5 more

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Article in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Neo M TapelaNuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Gontse TshisimogoMinistry of Health and Wellness, Gaborone, Botswana.
Bame P ShateraMinistry of Health and Wellness, Gaborone, Botswana.
Virginia LetsatsiMinistry of Health and Wellness, Gaborone, Botswana.
Moagi GaboroneDivision of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, United States of America (USA).
Tebogo MadidimaloDivision of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, United States of America (USA).
Martins OvberedjoDivision of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, United States of America (USA).
Haruna B JibrilMinistry of Health and Wellness, Gaborone, Botswana.
Billy TsimaFaculty of Medicine, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.
Oathokwa NkomazanaFaculty of Medicine, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.
Scott Dryden-PetersonDivision of Infectious Diseases, Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA.
Shahin LockmanDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
Tiny MasupeFaculty of Medicine, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.
Lisa R HirschhornDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA.
Shenaaz El HalabiWorld Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Funding

VectorP30CA006516 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI JENNIFER W MACK · 1985 to 2026
$330.6M
Mentoring in Patient-Oriented HIV Research in the Era of Universal ARTK24AI131928 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SHAHIN LOCKMAN · 2017 to 2026
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006516NIAID NIH HHS K24 AI131928World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the rising burden of noncommunicable diseases, access to quality decentralized noncommunicable disease services remain limited in many low- and middle-income countries. Here we describe the strategies we employed to drive the process from adaptation to national endorsement and implementation of the

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Noncommunicable DiseasesPrimary Health CareAdolescentAdultAgedBotswanaEvidence-Based PracticeFemaleHealth PersonnelHealth PolicyHumansMaleMiddle AgedMultilevel AnalysisPractice Guidelines as TopicProgram Development

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PMID30728620
PMCPMC6357568

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