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Commentary: How useful is ‘burden of disease’ to set public health priorities for infectious diseases?

For many infectious diseases, a low burden of disease does not equate to reduced potential public health importance. Many zoonotic infectious diseases have the potential for human-to-human transmission with potentially devastating consequences as currently seen with Ebola. Policymakers should not be...

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Autores principales: Berkelman, Ruth, LeDuc, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7099251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25925086
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2015.15