Do we need a world health insurance to realise the right to health?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2171-2176

  Ooms, Gorik ^a   Derderian, Katharine ^a   Melody, David ^b  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Belgium)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; MALARIA; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ARTICLE; HEALTH;

HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33845899097     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030530     Document Type: Review

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