Emerging and reemerging epidemic-prone diseases among settling nomadic pastoralists in Uganda

Acta Tropica

Volumn 137, Issue , 2014, Pages 19-24

  Cummings, Matthew J ^a   Wamala, Joseph F ^b   Komakech, Innocent ^c   Malimbo, Mugagga ^b   Lukwago, Luswa ^b,d  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Cholera; Hepatitis E; Meningococcal meningitis; Nomadic pastoralism; Uganda; Yellow fever

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EPIDEMIC; HEPATITIS; MENINGITIS; NOMADIC PEOPLE; PASTORALISM; YELLOW FEVER;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CHOLERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; DISEASE RE-EMERGENCE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNITY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NOMADIC PASTORALISM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SANITATION; UGANDA; VACCINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; YELLOW FEVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; EPIDEMIC; MIGRATION;

KARAMOJA; UGANDA;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; EPIDEMICS; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UGANDA;

EID: 84900833660     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.04.025     Document Type: Review

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