Interplay of politics and law to promote health: Improving economic equality and health: The case of postwar Japan

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 589-594

  Bezruchka, Stephen ^a   Namekata, Tsukasa ^a   Sistrom, Maria Gilson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INDUSTRIALIZATION; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POLITICS; REVIEW; SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; WAR; ARTICLE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; POLITICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 41949116894     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.116012     Document Type: Review

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