Milroy lecture: Eradication of disease: Hype, hope and reality

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 419-421

  Whitty, Christopher J M ^a  

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

Author keywords

Elimination; Eradication; Infectious diseases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LEPROSY CONTROL; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALARIA CONTROL; MORALITY; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; TRACHOMA; TROPICAL DISEASE;

ELIMINATION; ERADICATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASES;

HUMANS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE;

EID: 84906091715     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.14-4-419     Document Type: Article

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