Equity and the child health Millennium Development Goal: The role of pro-poor health policies

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 327-333

  Kruk, Margaret E ^a   Prescott, Marta R ^a   De Pinho, Helen ^a   Galea, Sandro ^a  

^a Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; IMMUNIZATION; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED NATIONS;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 79952361753     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.096081     Document Type: Article

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