Surviving polio in a post-polio world

Nora Ellen Groce, Lena Morgon Banks and Michael Ashley Stein

Social Science & Medicine, 2014, vol. 107, issue C, 171-178

Abstract: Excitement mounts as the global health and international development communities anticipate a polio-free world. Despite substantial political and logistical hurdles, only 223 cases of wild poliovirus in three countries were reported in 2012. Down 99% from the estimated 350,000 annual cases in 125 countries in 1988—this decline signals the imminent global eradication of polio.

Keywords: Polio; Post-polio; Eradication; Disability; Rehabilitation; Global public health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.02.024

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