The small world of global health

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 291-298

  Koplan, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicable diseases; Developing nations; Global health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIPID DIET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAVEL;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MORTALITY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RISK FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0036772440     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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