The impact of regime type on health: Does redistribution explain everything

World Politics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 647-677

  Wigley, Simon ^a   Akkoyunlu Wigley, Arzu ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; HEALTH IMPACT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

DEMOCRACY; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; POPULATION GROUPS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 80054959870     PISSN: 00438871     EISSN: 10863338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0043887111000177     Document Type: Article

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