Is global health really global?

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Byass, Peter ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84878988045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.20671     Document Type: Editorial

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