Factors contributing to the decline of leprosy in Spain in the second half of the twentieth century

International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 258-268

  Alfonso, José L ^a   Vich, Fernando A ^b   Vilata, Juan J ^a   Terencio De Las Aguas, J ^c  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Centro Salud Pública de Manises

^c International Leprosy Association (ILA)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEPROSY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN;

EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEPROSY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PHYSICIANS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 33746394725     PISSN: 0148916X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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