Social Inequalities and Emerging Infectious Diseases

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 259-269

  Farmer, Paul ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COOPERATION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIOLOGY; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030256385     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0204.960402     Document Type: Review

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