An analysis of the health status of the United Arab Emirates: The 'big 4' public health issues

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Loney, Tom ^a   Aw, Tar Ching ^a   Handysides, Daniel G ^a,b   Ali, Raghib ^a   Blair, Iain ^a   Grivna, Michal ^a   Shah, Syed M ^a   Sheek Hussein, Mohamud ^a   El Sadig, Mohamed ^a   Sharif, Amer A ^a,c   El Obaid, Yusra ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUBAI HEALTH AUTHORITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Globalisation of public health; Non communicable disease; United arab emirates

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; GLOBALISATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INJURY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; STATISTICS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

GLOBALISATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH; NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880456945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.20100     Document Type: Article

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