Minimum Incomes for Healthy Living (MIHL): Next thrust in UK social policy?

Policy and Politics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 441-454

  Morris, J N ^a   Deeming, C ^a  

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

Author keywords

Healthy living; Minimum incomes; Social policy

Indexed keywords

INCOME; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SOCIAL POLICY; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 4744346438     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/0305573042009507     Document Type: Article

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