Medicalization of global health 1: Has the global health agenda become too medicalized?

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue SUPP.1, 2014, Pages

  Clark, Jocalyn ^a,b  

^a Communications and Development Unit icddrb ^*  (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Global health; Medicalization; Sociology

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MEDICALIZATION;

GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HUMANS; MEDICALIZATION;

EID: 84904390012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.23998     Document Type: Article

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