Assessment of core capacities for the International Health Regulations (IHR[2005]) - Uganda, 2009

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Wamala, Joseph F ^a   Okot, Charles ^b   Makumbi, Issa ^a   Natseri, Nasan ^b   Kisakye, Annet ^b   Nanyunja, Miriam ^b   Bakamutumaho, Barnabas ^a   Lutwama, Julius J ^a   Sreedharan, Rajesh ^d   Xing, Jun ^d   Gaturuku, Peter ^c   Aisu, Thomas ^c   Da Silveira, Fernando ^c   Chungong, Stella ^d  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^b World Health Organisation Country Office   (Uganda)

^c WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA   (Congo)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAPACITY BUILDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL CONTROL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UGANDA; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; UGANDA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 78649922225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-S1-S9     Document Type: Review

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