Multimorbidity: Not Just for the West

Amitava Banerjee; John Hurst; Edward Fottrell; J. Jaime Miranda

doi:10.5334/gh.835

Multimorbidity: Not Just for the West

Global Heart

Volume 15 (2020): Issue 1

By: Amitava Banerjee, John Hurst, Edward Fottrell and J. Jaime Miranda

Open Access

|Jul 2020

Abstract

“A multimorbidity lens creates exciting opportunities to reconceptualise health and wellbeing in all its complexity. We need to improve health metrics to capture this complexity and strengthen health services to respond to it.”

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.835 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179

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Language: English

Submitted on: May 30, 2020

Accepted on: Jun 12, 2020

Published on: Jul 2, 2020

Published by: Ubiquity Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

global health,

non-communicable disease,

multimorbidity

© 2020 Amitava Banerjee, John Hurst, Edward Fottrell, J. Jaime Miranda, published by Ubiquity Press
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