Developing public health work in local health systems

Primary Health Care Research and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 338-350

  Popay, Jennie ^a   Mallinson, Sara ^a   Kowarzik, Ute ^a   MacKian, Sara ^b   Busby, Helen Heather ^c,d  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

communities of public health practice; health inequalities; primary care; public health; reflexive communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968456841     PISSN: 14634236     EISSN: 14771128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1463423604pc224oa     Document Type: Article

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