China's Silk Road and global health

The Lancet

Volumn 390, Issue 10112, 2017, Pages 2595-2601

  Tang, Kun ^a   Li, Zhihui ^b   Li, Wenkai ^c   Chen, Lincoln ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c China Medical Board ^*  (China)

^d China Medical Board   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CHINA; CHINESE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; FUNDING; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; MEDICAL STAFF; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SOLDIER; STAFF TRAINING; ASIA; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIC; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

AFRICA; ASIA; CHINA; EPIDEMICS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTHCARE FINANCING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 85037042835     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32898-2     Document Type: Review

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