Newdemics, public health, small-world networks, and point-of-care testing

Point of Care

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 138-144

  Kost, Gerald J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child mortality; Complex adaptive system; Demographic care unit; Disease burden; Epidemiological transition; Evidence based medicine; Health expenditure; Human development index; Katrina; Node; Self monitoring of blood glucose; Tight glucose control; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845490663     PISSN: 1533029X     EISSN: 15330303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.poc.0000232581.36762.21     Document Type: Article

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