Are the national preventive health initiatives likely to reduce health inequities?

Australian Journal of Primary Health

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 320-326

  Baum, Fran ^a   Fisher, Matthew ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

health equity; health policy; health promotion; social determinants of health.

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADVERTIZING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIAL STATUS;

AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 82155163796     PISSN: 14487527     EISSN: 18367399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PY11041     Document Type: Article

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