Management of environmental health issues for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games: Is enhanced integrated environmental health surveillance needed in every day routine operation?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hadjichristodoulou, Christos ^a,b   Mouchtouri, Varvara ^a,b   Vaitsi, Vasiliki ^b   Kapoula, Christina ^a,b   Vousoureli, Anastasia ^b   Kalivitis, Isidiros ^b   Chervoni, Julia ^c   Papastergiou, Panagiotis ^a   Vasilogiannakopoulos, Antonios ^b   Daniilidis, Vasilis D ^b   Kremastinou, Jenny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FOOD SAFETY; GREECE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALMONELLOSIS; SPORT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CATERING SERVICE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTORY; INFECTION CONTROL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; SWIMMING POOL; WATER SUPPLY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANNIVERSARIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GREECE; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; RESTAURANTS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SPORTS; SWIMMING POOLS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33846598019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-306     Document Type: Article

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