'Vulnerability is universal': Considering the place of 'security' and 'vulnerability' within contemporary global health discourse

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 319-326

  Brown, Tim ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global health; Health geography; Security; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

GEOPOLITICS; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH POLICY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIFESTYLE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL SECURITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH; INFECTION CONTROL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TOPOGRAPHY;

LACUNA; SUIDAE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; SECURITY MEASURES; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79953006866     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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