Toward Operational Criteria for Ecosystem Approaches to Health

EcoHealth

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 220-226

  Richter, Carsten H ^a,b   Steele, Jennifer A ^c   Nguyen Viet, Hung ^d,e   Xu, Jianchu ^f   Wilcox, Bruce A ^g  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e HANOI UNIVERSITY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Viet Nam)

^f WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE   (China)

^g MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC RELATIONS;

CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84942504655     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-015-1028-1     Document Type: Article

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