Addressing Global Health Governance Challenges through a New Mechanism: The Proposal for a Committee C of the World Health Assembly

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 550-563

  Kickbusch, Ilona ^a   Hein, Wolfgang ^b   Silberschmidt, Gaudenz ^c  

^a Graduate Institute   (Switzerland)

^b GIGA GERMAN INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL AND AREA STUDIES   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77957237312     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: 1748720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2010.00511.x     Document Type: Article

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