Poverty, Dignity, and Forgotten Skin Care: Dermatology in the Stream of Human Mobile Population

Dermatologic Clinics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 245-256

  Morrone, Aldo ^a  

^a Tropical Dermatology   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN CARE; SKIN DISEASE; TROPICAL DISEASE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; ITALY; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; POVERTY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SKIN DISEASES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 40749124319     PISSN: 07338635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.det.2007.11.004     Document Type: Review

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