Neglected Diseases and Ethnic Minorities in the Western Pacific Region. Exploring the Links

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 72, Issue C, 2010, Pages 79-107

  Schratz, Alexander ^a   Pineda, Martha Fernanda ^a   Reforma, Liberty G ^a   Fox, Nicole M ^a   Le Anh, Tuan ^a   Tommaso Cavalli Sforza, L ^a   Henderson, Mackenzie K ^a   Mendoza, Raymond ^a   Utzinger, Jürg ^b,c   Ehrenberg, John P ^a   Tee, Ah Sian ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BOOK; CAMBODIA; CESTODE; CESTODIASIS; CLONORCHIASIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ETHNIC GROUP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HELMINTHIASIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LAOS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALAYSIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MINORITY GROUP; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPISTHORCHIASIS; PARAGONIMIASIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHILIPPINES; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; VIET NAM; VULNERABLE POPULATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; PARASITIC DISEASES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77954616148     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(10)72004-2     Document Type: Chapter

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