Weather conditions and population level mortality in resource-poor settings-understanding the past before projecting the future

Global Health Action

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL., 2012, Pages 2-5

  Rocklöv, Joacim ^a   Sauerborn, Rainer ^a,b   Sankoh, Osman ^b,c,d  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 84881653736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v5i0.20010     Document Type: Editorial

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