Maximizing the contribution of the public health workforce: The English experience

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 935-940

  Sim, F ^a   Lock, K ^a   McKee, M ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PARADIGM SHIFT; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRAINING;

GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

EDUCATION, PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 37049010340     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.07.044289     Document Type: Review

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