Changing health in China: Re-evaluating the epidemiological transition model

Health Policy

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 329-343

  Cook, Ian G ^a   Dummer, Trevor J B ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diseases of affluence; Diseases of poverty; Epidemiological transition; Health transition; People's Republic of China; State policy

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; DISASTER; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESTYLE; MARKET; MORTALITY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; THEORETICAL MODEL; URBAN AREA;

EID: 1242292449     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2003.07.005     Document Type: Article

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