The UN special rapporteur on the right to health: Key objectives, themes, and interventions

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-27

  Hunt, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN RIGHTS; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 1542380861     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4065415     Document Type: Article

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