Public health in Haiti - Challenges and progress

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 300-301

  Dowell, Scott F ^b   Tappero, Jordan W ^c   Frieden, Thomas R ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Div of Global Disease Detection and Emergency Response   (United States)

^c Health Systems Reconstruction Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHOLERA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIARRHEA; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EARTHQUAKE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FILARIASIS; FOLLOW UP; GOVERNMENT; HAITI; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEADERSHIP; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALARIA; MEASLES; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RABIES; RUBELLA; SANITATION; SHORT SURVEY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 79251500686     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1100118     Document Type: Short Survey

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