Assessing the health impact of trade: A call for an expanded research agenda: Comment on “The trans-pacific partnership: Is it everything we feared for health?"

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 293-294

  McNamara, Courtney ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Health; Labour markets; Social policy; Trade

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMMERCE; GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 85029328355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23225939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.126     Document Type: Note

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