A step too far? Making health equity interventions in Namibia more sufficient

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-7

  Low, Anne ^a   Ithindi, Taati ^b   Low, Allan ^c  

^a Derwentside Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Psychiatry   (Namibia)

^c Freelance Health Economist   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; MOTIVATION; NAMIBIA; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH EQUITY; HUMAN; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 3042600727     PISSN: 14759276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-2-1     Document Type: Article

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