Ebola outbreak: From the perspective of African migrants in China

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2015, Pages e5-

  Lin, Lavinia ^a   Hall, Brian J ^b,c   Khoe, Levina Chandra ^b,d   Bodomo, Adams B ^e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Health Technology Assessment Team Australia Indonesia Partnership for Health System Strengthening   (Indonesia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ETHNOLOGY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MIGRATION; PROCEDURES; RACISM; SOCIAL STIGMA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICA; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; QUARANTINE; RACISM; SOCIAL STIGMA; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 84926666614     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302649     Document Type: Letter

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