Promoting social change: The experience of health action zones in England

Journal of Social Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 427-445

  Bauld, Linda ^a   Judge, Ken ^a   Barnes, Marian ^b   Benzeval, Michaela ^a   MacKenzie, Mhairi ^a   Sullivan, Helen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH POLICY; SOCIAL EXCLUSION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 22244473979     PISSN: 00472794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047279405008858     Document Type: Review

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