Impediments to global surveillance of infectious diseases: consequences of open reporting in a global economy

Globalization has led to an increase in the spread of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. International efforts are being launched to control their dissemination through global surveillance, a major hindrance to which is the failure of some countries to report outbreaks. Current guidelines...

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Main Authors: Richard A. Cash, Vasant Narasimhan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2000-11-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862000001100012&lng=en&tlng=en