World Health Assembly Agendas and trends of international health issues for the last 43 years: Analysis of World Health Assembly Agendas between 1970 and 2012

Health Policy

Volumn 110, Issue 2-3, 2013, Pages 198-206

  Kitamura, Tomomi ^a   Obara, Hiromi ^a   Takashima, Yoshihiro ^b   Takahashi, Kenzo ^c   Inaoka, Kimiko ^a   Nagai, Mari ^a   Endo, Hiroyoshi ^d   Jimba, Masamine ^e   Sugiura, Yasuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agenda items; International health issues; World Health Assembly; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME NURSING; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFLUENZA; MATERNAL WELFARE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84876131904     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.12.008     Document Type: Article

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