Public Health, Global Surveillance, and the "Emerging Disease" Worldview: A Postcolonial Appraisal of PEPFAR

Health Communication

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 519-532

  Sastry, Shaunak ^a   Dutta, Mohan J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

ALTRUISM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HEALTH POLICY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84861516029     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2011.616626     Document Type: Article

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