The evolving WHO: Implications for global health security

Global Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 801-813

  Kamradt Scott, Adam ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

global health security; pandemic; SARS; Swine Flu; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H5N1); PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84857070557     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2010.513690     Document Type: Article

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