Health response system for Syria: Beyond official narrative

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9915, 2014, Pages 407-

  Sahloul, Zaher ^a   Coutts, Adam ^b   Fouad, Fouad M ^c   Jabri, Sawsan ^d   Hallam, Rola ^e   Azrak, Fuad ^f   Maziak, Wasim ^g  

^a Syrian American Medical Society   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^d Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organizations   (United States)

^e Anaesthesia and Emergency Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^f WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; LETTER; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84895068105     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62558-1     Document Type: Letter

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