Public health in the UK: Success or failure?

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 107-111

  Gray, Selena ^a   Pilkington, Paul ^a   Pencheon, David ^b   Jewell, Tony ^c,d  

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

^b Eastern Public Health Observatory

^c Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Health Protection Unit   (United Kingdom)

^d Association of Directors of Public Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 33644993313     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.99.3.107     Document Type: Short Survey

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