Health in the urban environment: Experience from Dar es Salaam/Tanzania

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1023, Issue , 2004, Pages 159-163

  Lorenz, Nicolaus ^a   Mtasiwa, Deo ^b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Regional Medical Office of Health   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Poverty; Sectorwide approaches; Urban health

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TANZANIA; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

CHLOROCRAMBE HASTATA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 3242728390     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1319.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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