Breaking the poor health-poverty link in the 21st Century: Do health systems help or hinder?

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 389-399

  Whitehead, M ^a   Bird, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILARIASIS; FRUIT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; IODINE DEFICIENCY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL DISEASE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PARASITOSIS; POVERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SELF CARE; SIMULIUM; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORK DISABILITY; COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION;

COST OF ILLNESS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; POVERTY;

EID: 34447302840     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485906X97363     Document Type: Review

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