A globalization-oriented perspective on health, inequality and socio-economic development

International Journal of Health Planning and Management

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 2-33

  Tausch, Arno ^a,b  

^a Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth Economic Development General; International Relations and International Political Economy General; Life expectancy, under five mortality, comparative health; Public health policy

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GLOBALIZATION; HEALTH POLICY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84857733044     PISSN: 07496753     EISSN: 10991751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hpm.1090     Document Type: Article

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