Mass gatherings medicine and global health security

The Lancet

Volumn 380, Issue 9836, 2012, Pages 3-4

  Rabeeah, Abdullah Al ^a   Memish, Ziad A ^a,b   Zumla, Alimuddin ^c   Shafi, Shuja ^d   McCloskey, Brian ^e   Moolla, Ahmad ^f   Barbeschi, Maurizio ^g   Heymann, David ^h   Horton, Richard ⁱ  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^b ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MUSLIM COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN   (United Kingdom)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^h LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ THE LANCET   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHLETE; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; NOTE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL SECURITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ARTICLE; CROWDING; EMPORIATRICS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIGION; SAUDI ARABIA; TRAVEL;

CROWDING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; ISLAM; MASS BEHAVIOR; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAUDI ARABIA; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 85047687500     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61073-3     Document Type: Note

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