World Health Assembly Resolution 60.22 and its importance as a health care policy tool for improving emergency care access and availability globally

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-44.e3

  Anderson, Philip D ^a   Suter, Robert E ^b   Mulligan, Terrence ^c,d   Bodiwala, Gautam ^e   Razzak, Junaid A ^f   Mock, Charles ^g  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84862647149     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.10.018     Document Type: Article

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