Health and sustainable development: Can we rise to the challenge?

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Volumn 360, Issue 9333, 2002, Pages 632-637

  Von Schirnding, Yasmin ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BIODIVERSITY; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DIARRHEA; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EPIDEMIC; GLOBAL CHANGE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SANITATION; WATER SAMPLING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0037167251     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)09777-5     Document Type: Article

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