An investigation into the risk factors of musculoskeletal diseases and the association between chronic diseases of lifestyle in an under-resourced area of the Cape Town Metropole

Background: A recent shift in the global burden of disease from communicable to noncommunicable has shown that a third of the global burden of disease is attributable to noncommunicable disease, with the heaviest burden affecting poor communities in urban areas. Musculoskeletal disease (MSD) is the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Britz, Carmen
Other Authors: Hendricks, Candice
Format: Dissertation
Language:Eng
Published: Faculty of Health Sciences 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31092