Governments are legally obliged to ensure adequate access to health information

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Bhaumik, Soumyadeep ^a   Pakenham Walsh, Neil ^a,b   Chatterjee, Pranab ^a,c   Biswas, Tamoghna ^a  

^a Global Healthcare Information Network   (United Kingdom)

^b CHILD2015   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMAN RIGHTS; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; UNITED NATIONS;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 84887583794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(13)70043-3     Document Type: Letter

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