Public health in Africa

Global Public Health: A New Era

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sanders, David ^a   Igumbor, Ehi ^a   Lehmann, Uta ^a   Meeus, Wilma ^b   Dovlo, Delanyo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b ETC Crystal   (Netherlands)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Health; Health policy; Itiatives; Public health services; Sub saharan africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920919879     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199236626.003.008     Document Type: Chapter

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