The geography of epilepsy: A fatal disease in resource-poor settings

Neurology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 96-97

  Birbeck, Gretchen ^a,b   Hesdorffer, Dale ^c  

^a East Lansing   (United States)

^b Chikankata Hospital   (Zambia)

^c Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; BURN; CHINA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWNING; EDITORIAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FALLING; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MORTALITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051552026     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318223c7c7     Document Type: Editorial

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