Co-occurring epidemics, syndemics, and population health

The Lancet

Volumn 389, Issue 10072, 2017, Pages 978-982

  Tsai, Alexander C ^a,b,c,e   Mendenhall, Emily ^f   Trostle, James A ^g,h   Kawachi, Ichiro ^b,c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

^f GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC HEPATITIS C; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; NOTE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIOLENCE; COST OF ILLNESS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MIXED INFECTION; POPULATION HEALTH; SYNDROME;

COINFECTION; COST OF ILLNESS; EPIDEMICS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POPULATION HEALTH; SYNDROME;

EID: 85014480968     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30403-8     Document Type: Note

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