WHO's budgetary allocations and burden of disease: a comparative analysis

The Lancet

Volumn 372, Issue 9649, 2008, Pages 1563-1569

  Stuckler, David ^a,b   King, Lawrence ^b   Robinson, Helen ^b   McKee, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INFECTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIOLENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 54849408740     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61656-6     Document Type: Article

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