Local health department food safety and sanitation expenditures and reductions in enteric disease, 2000-2010

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages S345-S352

  Bekemeier, Betty ^a   Yip, Michelle Pui Yan ^a   Dunbar, Matthew D ^a   Whitman, Greg ^a   Kwan Gett, Tao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; ECONOMICS; FOOD SAFETY; GOVERNMENT; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SANITATION; UNITED STATES;

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; FOOD SAFETY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEPATITIS A; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NEW YORK; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; SANITATION; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84924699783     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302555     Document Type: Article

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