Promoting equity in health: What role for courts?

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Yamin, Alicia Ely ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PATIENT RIGHT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; JUDICIAL ROLE; PATIENT RIGHTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84916938887     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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