Essential evidence for guiding health system priorities and policies: anticipating epidemiological transition in Africa

Background: Despite indications that infection-related mortality in sub-Saharan Africa may be decreasing and the burden of non-communicable diseases increasing, the overwhelming reality is that health information systems across most of sub-Saharan Africa remain too weak to track epidemiological tran...

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Main Authors: Peter Byass, Don de Savigny, Alan D. Lopez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2014-05-01
Series:Global Health Action
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Online Access:http://www.globalhealthaction.net/index.php/gha/article/download/23359/pdf_1