Health systems and gender in post-conflict contexts: Building back better?

Conflict and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Percival, Valerie ^a   Richards, Esther ^b   MacLean, Tammy ^c   Theobald, Sally ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender equity and health; Health system reform; Post conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928231268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1505-8-19     Document Type: Review

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