Communicating and Monitoring Surveillance and Response Activities for Malaria Elimination: China's "1-3-7" Strategy

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Cao, Jun ^a,b,c   Sturrock, Hugh J W ^d   Cotter, Chris ^d   Zhou, Shuisen ^e   Zhou, Huayun ^a,b   Liu, Yaobao ^a,c   Tang, Linhua ^e   Gosling, Roly D ^d   Feachem, Richard G A ^d   Gao, Qi ^a,b,c  

^a JIANGSU INSTITUTE OF PARASITIC DISEASES   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^c Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory on Molecular Biology of Parasites   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; DISEASE ELIMINATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MALARIA; MEDICAL INFORMATION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; DISEASE ERADICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR;

CHINA; DISEASE ERADICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HUMANS; MALARIA; RESEARCH REPORT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84901473863     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001642     Document Type: Article

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