The Joint Action and Learning Initiative: Towards a Global Agreement on National and Global Responsibilities for Health

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Gostin, Lawrence O ^a   Friedman, Eric A ^a   Ooms, Gorik ^b   Gebauer, Thomas ^c   Gupta, Narendra ^d   Sridhar, Devi ^e   Chenguang, Wang ^f   Røttingen, John Arne ^g   Sanders, David ^h  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c Medico International   (Germany)

^d Prayas ^*  (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^h UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; ORGANIZATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPONSIBILITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; LEGAL ASPECT;

HEALTH POLICY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79958012899     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001031     Document Type: Article

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