"We Can't Give Up Now": Global Health Optimism and Polio Eradication in Pakistan

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 385-403

  Closser, Svea ^a  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

eradication; global health; Pakistan; poliomyelitis; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH; HUMAN; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PAKISTAN; POLIOMYELITIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; PAKISTAN; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINES; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84864992713     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2011.645927     Document Type: Article

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