Human rights and ethics in public health

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1903-1905

  Gruskin, Sofia ^a   Dickens, Bernard ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLICATION;

CULTURE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33750491145     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.099606     Document Type: Editorial

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