Disease ecology and a reformist alternative: The case of infant mortality

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 657-671

  Gesler, Wilbert M ^a   Bird, Sheryl Thorburn ^b   Oljeski, Stephen A ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease ecology; Humanism; Medical geography; Political economy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; HUMANISM; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLITICS; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL MEDICINE; SOCIALISM; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0031022684     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00219-5     Document Type: Article

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