Multinational corporations and infectious disease: Embracing human rights management techniques

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Salcito, Kendyl ^a,b,c,d   Singer, Burton H ^e   Weiss, Mitchell G ^a,b   Winkler, Mirko S ^a,b   Krieger, Gary R ^d   Wielga, Mark ^c,d   Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c NomoGaia   (United States)

^d NewFields LLC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Human rights; Infectious diseases; Multinational corporations; Systems based interventions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFECTION; MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 85006221920     PISSN: 20955162     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-9957-3-39     Document Type: Article

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