One Health in Switzerland: A visionary concept at a crossroads?

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Meisser, Andrea ^a   Schelling, Esther ^a   Zinsstag, Jakob ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal health; Collaboration; Cooperation; Human health; Monitoring; One Health; One medicine; Public health; Surveillance; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SWITZERLAND; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; SWITZERLAND; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 79958183383     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13201     Document Type: Article

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