Editorial: The Icelandic ash cloud and other erupting health threats: What role for syndromic surveillance?

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 367-368

  Brand, Helmut ^a   Krafft, Thomas ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b C/o GEOMED Research Foroschungsgesellschaft MbH ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISASTER PLANNING; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ICELAND; METHODOLOGY; VOLCANO;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; ICELAND; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 77955041191     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckq088     Document Type: Editorial

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