Health treaty dilution: A case study of Japan's influence on the language of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 751-756

  Assunta, Mary ^a   Chapman, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH POLICY; TOBACCO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DILUTION; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LAW; REVIEW; SMOKING CESSATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; NEGOTIATING; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; TERMINOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 33748040084     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.043794     Document Type: Review

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