Health imperatives in foreign policy: The case of Malaysia

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-229

  Barraclough, Simon ^a   Phua, Kai Lit ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL AGREEMENT; DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; FOREIGN POLICY; GLOBAL ECONOMY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN RESOURCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANITIES; MALAYSIA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; REVIEW; SOCIAL SECURITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ALTRUISM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALAYSIA; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; PUBLIC POLICY; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33947186191     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.06.037119     Document Type: Review

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