'Because we all know that vaccines are an extremely effective public health tool': Path dependency, H1N1 and the World Health Organisation

Policy Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 381-397

  Abeysinghe, Sudeepa ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

H1N1; pandemic; path dependency; sociology; World Health Organisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866884597     PISSN: 01442872     EISSN: 14701006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2012.719725     Document Type: Article

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