Reaching the hard-to-reach: Conceptual puzzles and challenges for policy and practice

Journal of Social Policy

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 511-532

  MacKenzie, Mhairi ^a   Reid, Maggie ^b   Turner, Fiona ^b   Wang, Yingying ^b   Clarke, Julia ^b   Sridharan, Sanjeev ^c   Platt, Stephen ^d   O'Donnell, Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; PUBLIC SECTOR; PUBLIC SERVICE;

EID: 84861819142     PISSN: 00472794     EISSN: 14697823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047279412000074     Document Type: Article

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