Looking at non-communicable diseases in Uganda through a local lens: an analysis using locally derived data.

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Published in Global Health on November 19, 2014

Authors

Jeremy I Schwartz1,2,3, David Guwatudde4, Rachel Nugent5, Charles Mondo Kiiza6,7

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. Jeremy.schwartz@yale.edu.
2: Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network, Boston, MA, USA. Jeremy.schwartz@yale.edu.
3: Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-communicable Diseases, Kampala, Uganda. Jeremy.schwartz@yale.edu.
4: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda. dguwatudde@musph.ac.ug.
5: Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. rnugent2@uw.edu.
6: Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-communicable Diseases, Kampala, Uganda. charlesmondo2011@gmail.com.
7: Department of Medicine, Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda. charlesmondo2011@gmail.com.

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