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Understanding non-communicable diseases: combining health surveillance with local knowledge to improve rural primary health care in South Africa

Eilidh Cowana School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Lucia D’Ambruosob Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK;c Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;d MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit [Agincourt], School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;e National Health Service, Grampian, UKORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8505-3368View further author information
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Maria van der Merwef Independent Public Health and Nutrition Consultant, Nelspruit, South AfricaView further author information
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Sophie Witterg Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, Musselburgh, UKORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7656-6188View further author information
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Peter Byassb Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK;c Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;d MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit [Agincourt], School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5474-4361View further author information
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Soter Amehh Department of Community Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria;i Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8449-6423View further author information
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Ryan G. Wagnerc Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;d MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit [Agincourt], School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;j Studies of Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems (SEEDS) – INDEPTH Network, Accra, GhanaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2741-3676View further author information
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Rhian Twined MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit [Agincourt], School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0766-6556View further author information
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Article: 1852781 | Received 22 Sep 2020, Accepted 16 Nov 2020, Published online: 24 Dec 2020

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Pyry Mattila, Justine Davies, Denny Mabetha, Stephen Tollman & Lucia D’Ambruoso. (2022) Burden of mortality linked to community-nominated priorities in rural South Africa. Global Health Action 15:1.
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Thu Nam T. Nguyen, Thi Tho T. Nguyen, Bao Quoc Tran, Cong Tuan Pham, Kelly E. Perry, Tilahun Haregu, Brian Oldenburg & Paul Kowal. (2023) Putting non-communicable disease data to work in Vietnam: an investigation of community health surveillance capacity. BMC Public Health 23:1.
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