Designing epidemics: Models, policy-making, and global foreknowledge in India's AIDS epidemic

Science and Public Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 585-596

  Mahajan, Manjari ^a  

^a SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH POLICY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD BANK;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 58449104765     PISSN: 03023427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3152/030234208X377227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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