The successful implementation of Scotland's Hepatitis C Action Plan: What can other European stakeholders learn from the experience? A Scottish voluntary sector perspective

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wylie, Leon ^a   Hutchinson, Sharon ^b   Liddell, David ^c   Rowan, Nicola ^d  

^a Hepatitis Scotland   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH DRUGS FORUM   (United Kingdom)

^d HEALTH PROTECTION SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; FUNDING; HARM REDUCTION; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; NOTE; PREVALENCE; PRISONER; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SCOTLAND; COMPLICATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HEPACIVIRUS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSMISSION; UNITED KINGDOM;

GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SCOTLAND; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; VOLUNTARY HEALTH AGENCIES;

EID: 84929517584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-S6-S7     Document Type: Note

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