End-of-life care issues: A personal, economic, public policy, and public health crisis

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Morhaim, Dan K ^a   Pollack, Keshia M ^b  

^a School of Public Health   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS; TERMINAL CARE;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY; TERMINAL CARE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878031717     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301316     Document Type: Review

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