Addressing poverty and human development - Synonymous with infection control

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1321-1322

  Malani, Preeti N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; IVERMECTIN; PERMETHRIN;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG COST; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POVERTY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SANITATION; SCABIES; TUBERCULOSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; METHODOLOGY;

CROSS INFECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONERS; POVERTY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 38449119462     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/523860     Document Type: Editorial

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