The stages of international (global) health: Histories of success or successes of history?

Global Public Health

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-68

  Birn, Anne Emanuelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Global health success; History of international health; International organisations

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEADERSHIP; MALARIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SYMPOSIUM; TUBERCULOSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 58249130823     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441690802017797     Document Type: Article

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