Facility-based surveillance for emerging infectious diseases; diagnostic practices in rural west african hospital settings: Observations from Ghana

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1725, 2017, Pages

  Jephcott, Freya L ^a,b   Wood, James L N ^a   Cunningham, Andrew A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Febrile illness; Integrated disease surveillance and response; International health regulations

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MALARIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION;

BRONG-AHAFO; GHANA; TECHIMAN;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ONE HEALTH; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; GHANA; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; ONE HEALTH; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 85020425444     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0544     Document Type: Article

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