Epidemiology and health policy - A world of difference?: A case-study of a cholera outbreak in Kaputa district, Zambi

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 93-99

  Van Bergen, J E A M ^a  

^a SAD Schorer Foundation   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cholera; Epidemiology; Health policy; Zambia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLERA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOLOGY; TEAMWORK; ZAMBIA;

CHOLERA; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; POLITICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SANITATION; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; WORLD HEALTH; ZAMBIA;

CHOLERA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY ROLE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH POLICY FORMULATION; POLICY DEVELOPMENT;

ZAMBIA, KAPUTA DISTRICT;

EID: 0029662551     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(95)00339-8     Document Type: Article

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