Strategies for the Global Eradication of Poliomyelitis by the Year 2000
| Autor: | R M Scott, S. E. Robertson, Peter F. Wright, R H Henderson, C A de Quadros, N.A. Ward, Robert Kim-Farley |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Economic growth
medicine.medical_specialty Developing country macromolecular substances World Health Organization World health Indigenous medicine Humans Smallpox Developing Countries Health Services Needs and Demand Transmission (medicine) business.industry Research Public health General Medicine Acute anterior poliomyelitis medicine.disease Surgery Poliomyelitis Poliovirus Vaccine Inactivated Pan American Health Organization Immunization Americas business Forecasting |
| Zdroj: | New England Journal of Medicine. 325:1774-1779 |
| ISSN: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| DOI: | 10.1056/nejm199112193252504 |
| Popis: | IN May 1988, the World Health Assembly declared that the World Health Organization was committed to the global eradication of poliomyelitis by the year 2000.1 The eradication of poliomyelitis, as with smallpox, involves the additional criterion of the elimination of indigenous transmission of wild virus. This paper reviews the progress that has been achieved, outlines current objectives, and highlights the research and development required to meet the target of global eradication. Background The initiative for the global eradication of poliomyelitis is being coordinated by the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), established by the World Health Assembly in 1974. The initial . . . |
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