Setting health priorities in a Swiss canton: What do different methods tell us?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 388-393

  Schopper, Doris ^a   Torres, Alberto Manuel ^b   Pereira, Joaquin ^c   Ammon, Catherine ^a   Cuende, Natividad ^c   Alonso, Monica ^c   Baylin, Ana ^c   Ronchi, Anne ^a   Rougemont, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FAMILY VIOLENCE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH STATUS; MORTALITY; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; SMOKING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SUICIDE; SWITZERLAND; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 0034078420     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.54.5.388     Document Type: Article

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