Why language matters: Insights and challenges in applying a social determination of health approach in a North-South collaborative research program

Globalization and Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Spiegel, Jerry M ^a   Breilh, Jaime ^b   Yassi, Annalee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ANDINA SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Health equity; North South collaboration; Social determinants of health; Social determination of health

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; EQUITY; GLOBALIZATION; HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTOR;

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; DENGUE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; JUSTICE; LANGUAGE; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM SUSTAINABILITY; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL SECURITY; RESEARCH;

CANADA; ECUADOR; LATIN AMERICA;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; RESEARCH; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH;

EID: 84925341218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-015-0091-2     Document Type: Article

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