Complexity and human health: The case for a transdisciplinary paradigm

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-92

  Albrecht, Glenn ^a   Freeman, Sonia ^a   Higginbotham, Nick ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; COAL MINING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; CAUSALITY; COAL MINING; CORONARY DISEASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NEW SOUTH WALES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0032014188     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005328821675     Document Type: Article

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