Mandatory public health programs: To what standards should they be held?

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 193-203

  Jody Heymann, S ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFECTION CONTROL; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; STANDARD; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

COERCION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032614386     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4065173     Document Type: Article

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