A salutogenic approach to tackling health inequalities

Health Assets in a Global Context: Theory, Methods, Action

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 17-39

  Lindström, Bengt ^a,b   Eriksson, Monica ^a  

^a FOLKHÄLSAN RESEARCH CENTER   (Finland)

^b NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

African tribes; Learning; Ottawa charter; Post modern (society); Quality of Life; Sense of coherence; WHO healthy city project

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885158385     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_2     Document Type: Chapter

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