How should health be defined?

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7683, 2008, Pages 1363-1364

  Jadad, Alejandro R ^a   O'Grady, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INTERNET; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 57749175512     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a2900     Document Type: Editorial

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