Rapid responses, population prevention and being bored to death

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 323-326

  Ebrahim, Shah ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL STATUS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CORONARY DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FINLAND; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KAZAKHSTAN; PATIENT RIGHTS; SIBERIA;

EID: 77952701674     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyq058     Document Type: Editorial

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