Response-oriented measuring inequalities in Tehran: Second round of Urban health equity assessment and response tool (Urban HEART-2), concepts and framework

Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 236-248

  Asadi Lari, Mohsen ^a   Vaez Mahdavi, Mohammad Reza ^b   Faghihzadeh, Soghrat ^c   Cherghian, Bahman ^d   Esteghamati, Alireza ^e   Farshad, Ali Asghar ^a   Golmakani, Mehdi ^f   Haeri Mehrizi, Ali Asghar ^g   Hesari, Hossein ^d   Kalantari, Naser ^h   Kamali, Mohammad ^a   Kordi, Ramin ^d   Malek Afzali, Hossein ^d   Montazeri, Ali ^g   Moradi Lakeh, Maziar ^a   Motevallian, Abbas ^a   Noorbala, Ahmad ⁱ   Raghfar, Hossein ^j   Razzaghi, Emran ⁱ  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ZANJAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f ACECR ^*  (Iran)

^g AVICENNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^h SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

ⁱ TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^j ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

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Author keywords

Community based development; Health inequality; Social determinants of health; Urban HEART

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887340163     PISSN: 10161430     EISSN: 22516840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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