Trade and health in Samoa: Views from the insiders

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Fa'alili Fidow, Jacinta ^a   Mccool, Judith ^a   Percival, Teuila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Non communicable disease; Pacific; Samoa; Trade

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIFESTYLE; MORBIDITY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEW ZEALAND; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SAMOA; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRENDS;

COMMERCE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIFE STYLE; MORBIDITY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEW ZEALAND; SAMOA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 84899485895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-309     Document Type: Article

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