Strengthening Trade and Health Governance Capacities to Address Non-Communicable Diseases in Asia: Challenges and Ways Forward

Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 310-323

  Baker, Phillip ^a   Kay, Adrian ^a   Walls, Helen ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Asia; Governance; Non communicable diseases; Regulation; Trade liberalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988012676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20502680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/app5.91     Document Type: Article

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