Hope for health in Turkmenistan?

The Lancet

Volumn 373, Issue 9681, 2009, Pages 2093-2095

  Rechel, Bernd ^a   Sikorskaya, Inga ^b   McKee, Martin ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for War and Peace Reporting   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; DRUG TRAFFIC; DRUG USE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT MORTALITY; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TUBERCULOSIS; TURKMENISTAN;

EID: 67149138033     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61133-8     Document Type: Note

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