Evolving Challenges and Opportunities in Public Health Surveillance

Principles & Practice of Public Health Surveillance

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lee, Lisa M ^a   Thacker, Stephen B ^a  

^a and Laboratory Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Challenges; Ethics; Health information exchanges; Opportunities; Public health; Summary; Surveillance; Workforce

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857297797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372922.003.0020     Document Type: Chapter

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