Health systems and health equity: The challenge of the decade

Global Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  Jacobs, Marian ^a   El Sadr, Wafaa M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

global health; global south; health equity; health systems; social determinants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EQUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLITICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84865401247     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2012.667426     Document Type: Article

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