Estimating the return of persons living with HIV/AIDS to New Orleans: Methods for conducting disease surveillance in the wake of a natural disaster

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 666-668

  Robinson, William T ^a,b   Wendell, Debbie ^a   Gruber, DeAnn ^a,b   Foxhood, Joseph ^a   Scalco, M Beth ^a,b   Zapata, Amy ^a,b  

^a Louisiana Office of Public Health   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HURRICANE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH SURVEY; MIGRATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; NATURAL DISASTERS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 41949118102     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.110080     Document Type: Article

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