Urban health: A new discipline

Lancet

Volumn 362, Issue 9390, 2003, Pages 1091-1092

  Vlahov, David ^a   Galea, Sandro ^a  

^a NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ASIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUROPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFLUENZA; MEDICAL CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHUS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0141528485     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14499-6     Document Type: Note

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