Commentary: Successes and missed opportunities

Pediatrics

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1134-1135

  Brosco, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MEASLES VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; WATER;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD DEATH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDBIRTH; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MATERNAL CARE; MEASLES; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NOTE; PEDIATRICIAN; PHYSICIAN; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SANITATION; WARD; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; PEDIATRICS; POLITICS; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; POLITICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 18744372424     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-2825E     Document Type: Note

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