London 2012 olympic and paralympic games: Public health surveillance and epidemiology

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9934, 2014, Pages 2083-2089

  McCloskey, Brian ^a,b   Endericks, Tina ^b   Catchpole, Mike ^b   Zambon, Maria ^c   McLauchlin, Jim ^d   Shetty, Nandini ^b   Manuel, Rohini ^b   Turbitt, Deborah ^a   Smith, Gillian ^e   Crook, Paul ^f   Severi, Ettore ^g   Jones, Jane ^h   Ibbotson, Sue ⁱ   Marshall, Roberta ^j   Smallwood, Catherine A H ^k   Isla, Nicolas ^l   Memish, Ziad A ^a,m,n,o   Al Rabeeah, Abdullah A ^a   Barbeschi, Maurizio ^a,k   Heymann, David L ^a,p,q   Zumla, Alimuddin ^a,r,s   more..

^a Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine   (Saudi Arabia)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c Reference Microbiology Services   (United Kingdom)

^d Public Health England   (United Kingdom)

^e Real time Syndromic Surveillance Team   (United Kingdom)

^f Field Epidemiology Services   (United Kingdom)

^g European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training   (United Kingdom)

^h Travel and Migrant Health Section for Infections   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ PHE Centre West Midlands   (United Kingdom)

^j PHE Centre West Midlands ^*  (United Kingdom)

^k Alert and Response   (Switzerland)

^l Global Preparedness Surveillance and and Response   (Switzerland)

^m WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

ⁿ MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^o ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^p ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS   (United Kingdom)

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

^r UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^s UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; GASTROENTERITIS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONELLOSIS; SPORTING EVENT; SUMMER; TUBERCULOSIS; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH HAZARD; INFECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROWDING; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; LONDON; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SPORTS; SYNDROME; TRAVEL;

EID: 84902333841     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62342-9     Document Type: Review

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