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Inadequate collaboration: A challenge to reaching global targets for non-communicable disease control and prevention

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Christiani, Y., Tavener, M., Byles, J. et al. Inadequate collaboration: A challenge to reaching global targets for non-communicable disease control and prevention. J Public Health Pol 37, 114–117 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2015.44

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