Communicable diseases in the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization: Towards a more effective response

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 199-205

  Gupta, Indrani ^a   Guin, Pradeep ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TREATMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; FINANCIAL CRISIS; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH POLICY; INTERNATIONAL AID; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; POLICY MAKING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHOLERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; DIPHTHERIA; DISABILITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INDONESIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEISHMANIASIS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALARIA; MALDIVES; MEASLES; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PANDEMIC; PARASITOSIS; PERTUSSIS; POVERTY; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SRI LANKA; TETANUS; THAILAND; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COST OF ILLNESS; GOALS; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 77649147748     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.09.065540     Document Type: Review

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