The disease profile of poverty: Morbidity and mortality in northern Uganda in the context of war, population displacement and HIV/AIDS

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 226-233

  Accorsi, S ^a   Fabiani, M ^a   Nattabi, B ^b   Corrado, B ^b   Iriso, R ^b   Ayella, E O ^b   Pido, B ^b   Onek, P A ^c   Ogwang, M ^b   Declich, S ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b St Mary's Hospital Lacor Uganda   (Uganda)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Disease burden; Epidemics; Population displacement; Poverty; Uganda; War

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUNGER; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TUBERCULOSIS; UGANDA; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PNEUMONIA; POVERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS; UGANDA; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 19944426869     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2004.09.008     Document Type: Article

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