Debate: Limitations on universality: The "right to health" and the necessity of legal nationality

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kingston, Lindsey N ^a   Cohen, Elizabeth F ^a   Morley, Christopher P ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; ISRAEL; LEGAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RIGHT TO HEALTH; THAILAND;

EID: 77953018267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-698X-10-11     Document Type: Review

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