Prevention is better than cure for emerging infectious diseases

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 348, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Heymann, David L ^a,b,c   Dar, Osman A ^a,c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORONAVIRUS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEFORESTATION; DISASTER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H7N9; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TRAVEL; URBANIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ECOLOGY; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84896739937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g1499     Document Type: Article

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