The health of peoples: Predicaments facing a reasoned utopia

International Journal of Health Services

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 543-568

  Horton, Richard ^a  

^a THE LANCET   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHICS; FOREIGN POLICY; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONAL RELATION; JUSTICE; MALARIA; MODEL; POLICY; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; POLITICS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0141958943     PISSN: 00207314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/N8MB-DV5B-TBAW-P1WB     Document Type: Review

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