Neglected diseases and poverty in "The other America": The greatest health disparity in the United States?

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Hotez, Peter J ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CYSTICERCOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCREENING TEST; SEIZURE; SEROPREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TAENIA SOLIUM; TOXOCARIASIS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; UNITED STATES; HEALTH DISPARITY;

CYSTICERCOSIS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOXOCARIASIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 47749095039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000149     Document Type: Editorial

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