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The Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control applies the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) License, or other comparable licenses that allow free and unrestricted use to articles we publish. If you submit your manuscript for publication by the Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control, you agree to have the CC BY license applied to your work. If your institution or funder requires your work or materials to be published under a different license or dedicated to the public domain - for example, Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (CC0) or Open Governmental License - this is permitted for those licenses where the terms are equivalent to or more permissive than CC BY.
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COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
The Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control applies the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) License, or other comparable licenses that allow free and unrestricted use to articles we publish. If you submit your manuscript for publication by the Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control, you agree to have the CC BY license applied to your work. If your institution or funder requires your work or materials to be published under a different license or dedicated to the public domain - for example, Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (CC0) or Open Governmental License - this is permitted for those licenses where the terms are equivalent to or more permissive than CC BY.
The Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control requires that you, as the author, agree that anyone can reuse your article content in whole or in part for any purpose, for free, even for commercial purposes. These permitted uses include but are not limited to the self-archiving by authors of submitted, accepted, and published versions of their papers in institutional repositories. Anyone may copy, redistribute, reuse, or modify the content as long as the author and original source are properly cited. This facilitates freedom in reuse and also ensures that the Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control content can be mined without barriers for the needs of research.
The author(s) retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.
Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) License.
