Exploring the international arena of global public health surveillance
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Exploring the international arena of global public health surveillance.
Threats posed by new, emerging or re-emerging communicable diseases are taking a global dimension, to which the World Health Organization (WHO) Secretariat has been responding with determination since 1995. Key to the global strategy for tackling epidemics across borders is the concept of global public health surveillance, which has been expanded and formalized by WHO and its technical partners...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Policy and Planning
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0268-1080,1460-2237
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czl034