Challenges for Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control in Southern Iraq, April-June 2003

JAMA

Volumn 290, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 654-658

  Valenciano, Marta ^a,e   Coulombier, Denis ^a   Cardozo, Barbara Lopes ^b   Colombo, Alessandro ^c   Alla, Mouhsen Jar ^d   Samson, Samuel ^d   Connolly, Máire A ^c  

^a WHO   (France)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d Basrah Department of Public Health   (Iraq)

^e WHO/CSR Office   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; INFECTION CONTROL; IRAQ; KUWAIT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANITATION; WAR; WATER SUPPLY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; IRAQ; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; WAR;

EID: 0041708058     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.290.5.654     Document Type: Article

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