Medicine and its alternatives: Health care priorities in the Caribbean

Hasting Center Report

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 23-27

  Aarons, Derrick E ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BUDGET; CENTRAL AMERICA; COST; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICINE; PHYTOTHERAPY; SOCIAL CONTROL; STANDARD; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

BUDGETS; CARIBBEAN REGION; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FORECASTING; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MEDICINE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL;

EID: 0033161006     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3528063     Document Type: Article

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