Building global epidemiology and response capacity with field epidemiology training programs

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue , 2017, Pages S158-S165

  Jones, Donna S ^a   Dicker, Richard C ^a   Fontaine, Robert E ^a   Boore, Amy L ^a   Omolo, Jared O ^a   Ashgar, Rana J ^b   Baggett, Henry C ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NONE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CHOLERA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; POLIOMYELITIS; TRAINING; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; CAPACITY BUILDING; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; MANPOWER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES;

CAPACITY BUILDING; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85040986664     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2313.170509     Document Type: Article

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