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Tag - Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

St Margaret's Hospital, PNG (Christopher John SSF/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

Effect of Australia’s regional health security initiative on national health security of poorly resourced countries

by Mahomed Patel and Christine Phillips
December 7, 2017
Diabetes check-up, Norsup hospital, Malekula Island, Vanuatu 2007 (Flickr/DFAT/Rob Maccoll for AusAID CC BY 2.0)

Knowledge of sickness and healing, medical pluralism, and health seeking in Vanuatu

by John Taylor and Lana Elliott
February 20, 2017
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WHO response on Pacific diabetes prevalence

by Leanne Riley and Douglas Bettcher
November 8, 2016
2016 Pacific NCD Summit (image: SPC)

Diabetes remains major health challenge in the Pacific

by Colin Tukuitonga
October 26, 2016
Doing homework in Delmas 32, Haiti (Flickr/World Bank/Dominic Chavez CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Is development destiny? The 2015 GBD report

by Camilla Burkot
October 14, 2016
Figure 1: Breakdown of treatment costs for clients seen at DFC versus hospital admissions

Cutting costs while improving care: Samoa’s Diabetic Foot Clinic

by Katrina McGrath
October 13, 2016
Tongans wait to be seen at Viola Hospital, Nuku'alofa (Flickr/DFAT/Connor Ashleigh for AusAID CC BY 2.0)

The global health threat hiding in the shadows

by Sam Byfield
October 11, 2016
Diabetes screening camp (Flickr/Trinity Care Foundation CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Pacific diabetes prevalence: lower than reported

by Richard Taylor and Paul Zimmet
October 6, 2016
Early morning fitness program participants at Tonga's national stadium (Flickr/DFAT/Connor Ashleigh for AusAID CC BY 2.0)

The economic burden of physical inactivity in the Asia-Pacific

by Ian Anderson
August 10, 2016
A Be the Change volunteer leads a nutrition education class in Rwanda (Flickr/USAID/Global Communities/Juozas Cernius CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Shifting the food and development agenda

by Sam Byfield
July 7, 2016
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