Public health in the era of south africa’s syphilis epidemic of the 1930s and 1940s

South African Historical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 79-102

  Jeeves, Alan ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIVIL DISORDER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; EPIDEMIC; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; MALNUTRITION; MIGRATION; PANIC; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; SYPHILIS;

CIVIL DISORDERS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EMPLOYMENT; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MALNUTRITION; PANIC; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RACE RELATIONS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; STEREOTYPING; SYPHILIS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 0347694238     PISSN: 02582473     EISSN: 17261686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02582470108671403     Document Type: Article

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