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Article: A community-based noncommunicable disease prevention intervention in Punjab, India: Baseline characteristics of 11,322 adults
As part of the research project led by Harvard Chan India Research Center in partnership with the Ambuja Cement Foundation, the team recently published an article “A community-based noncommunicable disease prevention intervention in Punjab, India: Baseline characteristics of 11,322 adults” in the “Indian Journal of Community Medicine”.
The article describes the results of a large-scale, community-based non- communicable diseases screening conducted in Punjab, India, using the government of India’s Community Based Assessment Checklist (CBAC) scoring system. The study is unique, given that it is one of the attempts to estimate the prevalence of high-risk CBAC scores in a large population-based sample. Given that the government of India aims to undertake population-based screening of all adults for non-communicable diseases, the results of this study are directly translatable for policy action.