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Capacity and readiness of primary health care centers for implementation of the basic strategy for prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in Saudi Arabia.

A case study from the Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Amen Bawazir, Khaled Al-Surimi, Salem D. Suwaidan, Ali M. AlShehri, Ali I. AlFarhan and Mostafa A. Abolfotouh
Saudi Medical Journal June 2019, 40 (6) 614-618; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.6.24164
Amen Bawazir
From the Department of College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Bawazir, Al-Surimi, AlShehri), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Research and Training (Suwaidan), King Khalid Teaching Hospital, King Saud University; from the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care (AlFarhan), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs; from the Department of Research and Training (Bawazir, Abolfotouh), King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Khaled Al-Surimi
From the Department of College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Bawazir, Al-Surimi, AlShehri), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Research and Training (Suwaidan), King Khalid Teaching Hospital, King Saud University; from the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care (AlFarhan), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs; from the Department of Research and Training (Bawazir, Abolfotouh), King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Salem D. Suwaidan
From the Department of College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Bawazir, Al-Surimi, AlShehri), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Research and Training (Suwaidan), King Khalid Teaching Hospital, King Saud University; from the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care (AlFarhan), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs; from the Department of Research and Training (Bawazir, Abolfotouh), King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ali M. AlShehri
From the Department of College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Bawazir, Al-Surimi, AlShehri), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Research and Training (Suwaidan), King Khalid Teaching Hospital, King Saud University; from the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care (AlFarhan), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs; from the Department of Research and Training (Bawazir, Abolfotouh), King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ali I. AlFarhan
From the Department of College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Bawazir, Al-Surimi, AlShehri), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Research and Training (Suwaidan), King Khalid Teaching Hospital, King Saud University; from the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care (AlFarhan), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs; from the Department of Research and Training (Bawazir, Abolfotouh), King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mostafa A. Abolfotouh
From the Department of College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Bawazir, Al-Surimi, AlShehri), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Research and Training (Suwaidan), King Khalid Teaching Hospital, King Saud University; from the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care (AlFarhan), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs; from the Department of Research and Training (Bawazir, Abolfotouh), King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 40 no. 6 614-618
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.6.24164
PubMed 
31219498

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received September 30, 2018
  • Accepted April 4, 2019
  • Published online June 1, 2019.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Amen Bawazir, PhD⇑,
  2. Khaled Al-Surimi, PhD,
  3. Salem D. Suwaidan, PhD,
  4. Ali M. AlShehri, FRCGP, MFPH,
  5. Ali I. AlFarhan, MFPH and
  6. Mostafa A. Abolfotouh, PhD
  1. From the Department of College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Bawazir, Al-Surimi, AlShehri), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the Department of Research and Training (Suwaidan), King Khalid Teaching Hospital, King Saud University; from the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care (AlFarhan), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs; from the Department of Research and Training (Bawazir, Abolfotouh), King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprints request to: Dr. Amen Bawazir, Department of College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: bawazir56{at}hotmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6308-3136
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Saudi Medical Journal Jun 2019, 40 (6) 614-618; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2019.6.24164

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Saudi Medical Journal Jun 2019, 40 (6) 614-618; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2019.6.24164
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