Table 1 Ten essential questions for developing a humanitarian response to NCDs
From: Non-communicable diseases in humanitarian settings: ten essential questions
| 1. What are the existing capacities of the local health system? | |
| 2. Which NCDs to address? | |
| 3. Who is the target population? | |
| 4. What kind of interventions needed to ensure continuum and continuity of care? | |
| 5. Which algorithms or guidelines to use? | |
| 6. What medications to be integrated in the basic essential drug list? | |
| 7. What are the ethical implications? | |
| 8. How to ensure accountability to patients? | |
| 9. How to monitor interventions? | |
| 10. What to do beyond provision of health services for “classical” NCDs? |
