The FIFA Womens World Cup in Germany 2011 - A practical example for tailoring an event-specific enhanced infectious disease surveillance system

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Takla, Anja ^a,b,c   Velasco, Edward ^a   Benzler, Justus ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology PAE   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; SPORT;

ANNIVERSARIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCCER; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84864350882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-576     Document Type: Article

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