Health equity: Utopian and scientific

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 739-740

  Kaufman, Jay S ^a   Harper, Sam ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EQUITY; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SMOKING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH;

EID: 84887824404     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.09.013     Document Type: Note

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