On the relationship between individual and population health

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 235-244

  Arah, Onyebuchi A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Context; Ethics; Individual health; Life course; Population health; Theory of health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOLOGY;

CAUSALITY; CLINICAL MEDICINE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 67649657986     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-008-9173-8     Document Type: Article

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