What Is Next for NTDs in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals?

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Smith, James ^a,b   Taylor, Emma Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; MALARIA; NEGLECTED DISEASE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SANITATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TROPICAL DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS; WATER BORNE DISEASE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MOTIVATION; TROPIC CLIMATE; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GLOBAL HEALTH; GOALS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84980390965     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004719     Document Type: Article

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