Health through people's empowerment: A rights-based approach to participation

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-35

  de Vos, Pol ^a   de Ceukelaire, Wim ^b   Malaise, Geraldine ^b   Pérez, Dennis ^c   Lefèvre, Pierre ^a   van der Stuyft, Patrick ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Department at INTAL ^*  (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMAN RIGHTS; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; POWER RELATIONS; STATE ROLE;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOLOGY; MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; POVERTY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; WORLD HEALTH; GLOBAL HEALTH;

ASIA; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CUBA; EURASIA; GREATER ANTILLES; MIDDLE EAST; PALESTINE; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ALMA;

EID: 70449467720     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/40285215     Document Type: Article

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