Worldly approaches to global health: 1851 to the present

Public Health

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 124-128

  Markel, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

History of global health; Pandemics; United Nations; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

HEALTH POLICY; HISTORICAL RECORD; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; PANDEMIC; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HISTORY OF GLOBAL HEALTH; PANDEMICS; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84892801460     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: 14765616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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