Timeliness of national notifiable diseases surveillance system in Korea: A cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Yoo, Hyo Soon ^a,c   Park, Ok ^a   Park, Hye Kyung ^a   Lee, Eun Gyu ^a   Jeong, Eun Kyeong ^b   Lee, Jong Koo ^a   Cho, Sung Il ^c  

^a Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (South Korea)

^b Ministry for Health   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CRUSH SYNDROME; DENGUE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; KOREA; MUMPS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCRUB TYPHUS; SHIGELLOSIS; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; TIME;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMANS; KOREA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 65149092436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-93     Document Type: Article

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