Mixed signals from Kerala’s improving health status

Journal of The Royal Society for the Promotion of Health

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-38

  Michael, Ewen J ^a   Singh, B ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Education; Health policy; Health status; Kerala (India); Morbidity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; FEVER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; LONG TERM CARE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SUICIDE; TUBERCULOSIS;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MORBIDITY; SUICIDE;

EID: 0037365342     PISSN: 14664240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146642400312300113     Document Type: Review

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