Health systems: How much difference can they make to health inequities?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 635-636

  Baum, Frances E ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIALIZATION; EDUCATION; EQUITY; GLOBALIZATION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

AUSTRALIA; JAPAN; SIERRA LEONE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; SOCIOECONOMICS;

GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HUMANS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84958063855     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2015-207071     Document Type: Article

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