Commentary: Improving the health of neglected populations in Latin America

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Franco Paredes, Carlos ^a,b   Jones, Danielle ^b   Rodríguez Morales, Alfonso ^c   Santos Preciado, José ^a  

^a HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

CHAGAS DISEASE; CHOLERA; DENGUE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE PARASITE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; POVERTY; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; SANITATION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; VACCINATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ECONOMICS; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 33846821344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-11     Document Type: Review

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