Health and Culture

The Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 23-42

  Quah, Stella ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Culture; Healing systems; Health; Health behavior; Preventive health behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958646059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996447.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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