Evidence of endemic dracunculiasis in new villages: Recrudescence or failure of the disease monitoring system;Les nouveaux villages d'endemie de la dracunculose : Reemergence de la maladie ou dysfonctionnement du systeme de surveillance

Medecine Tropicale

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 141-145

  Lucas, P ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dracunculiasis; Epidemiological monitoring; Eradication; Information systems; New villages of endemicity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; DRACUNCULIASIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BURKINA FASO; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DRACUNCULIASIS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBURBAN HEALTH; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 0032614666     PISSN: 0025682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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