Democracy – The real ‘ghost’ in the machine of global health policy: Comment on “A ghost in the machine? Politics in global health policy”

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 149-150

  Harmer, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Civil society; Democracy; Partnerships

Indexed keywords

EID: 85002425586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23225939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2014.75     Document Type: Note

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