It takes threat of Ebola to see lessons from low income countries

Globalization and Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Harris, Matthew ^a   Dadwal, Viva ^b   Wu, Albert ^b   Syed, Shamsuzzoha B ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SYMPTOM; THERAPY DELAY; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; LEARNING; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LEARNING; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84928530538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-015-0102-3     Document Type: Editorial

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