Global health status: Two steps forward, one step back

Lancet

Volumn 356, Issue 9229, 2000, Pages 577-582

  Sen, Kasturi ^a   Bonita, Ruth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW;

EID: 0034641537     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02590-3     Document Type: Article

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