Opportunities and challenges for delivering non-communicable disease management and services in fragile and post-conflict settings: perceptions of policy-makers and health providers in Sierra Leone
Abstract Background The growing burden of non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries presents substantive challenges for health systems. This is also the case in fragile, post-conflict and post-Ebola Sierra Leone, where NCDs represent an increasingly significant disease burden (ar...
Main Authors: | Sophie Witter, Guanyang Zou, Karin Diaconu, Reynold G. B. Senesi, Ayesha Idriss, John Walley, Haja Ramatulai Wurie |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-01-01
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Series: | Conflict and Health |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-019-0248-3 |
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