Reducing health inequities: The contribution of core public health services in BC

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Pauly, Bernadette ^a   Macdonald, Marjorie ^b   Hancock, Trevor ^b   Martin, Wanda ^b   Perkin, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complex adaptive systems; Critical social justice; Determinants of health; Ethics and values; Health equity tools and frameworks; Health inequities; Intersectionality; Population health interventions; Public health policy; Public health services

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; COMMUNITY INTEGRATION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMMUNITY INTEGRATION; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84878479776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-550     Document Type: Article

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