What is health equity: And how does a life-course approach take us further toward it?

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 366-372

  Braveman, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health disparities; Health equity; Life course

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84894899177     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-013-1226-9     Document Type: Article

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