The 5 × 5 path toward rheumatic heart disease control: Outcomes from the third rheumatic heart disease forum

Global Heart

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 75-78

  Johnson, Timothy D ^a   Grainger Gasser, Alice ^b   Boardman, Claire ^c   Remenyi, Bo ^c   Wyber, Rosemary ^a   Mayosi, Bongani M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b WORLD HEART FEDERATION   (Switzerland)

^c MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

CAPACITY BUILDING; DISEASE CONTROL; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; ORGANIZATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PENICILLIN G BENZATHINE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 84924211834     PISSN: 22118160     EISSN: 22118179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gheart.2014.12.005     Document Type: Editorial

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