Power and priorities: The growing pains of global health: Comment on “Knowledge, moral claims and the exercise of power in global health”

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 321-322

  Grépin, Karen Ann ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global health policy; Politics; Power; Priority setting

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001975472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23225939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.48     Document Type: Note

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