Roundtable: Health System Strengthening: New Potential for Public Health and Human Rights Collaboration
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Human rights and the new public health.
The exciting and rapidly advancing dialogue between health and human rights is helping to define more clearly the challenges and perspectives of a new approach to public health. Public health has a complex intellectual and operational history, within which there is a long and respected tradition of understanding health as linked with various social realities, expressed or analyzed through occup...
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عنوان ژورنال: Reproductive Health Matters
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0968-8080,1460-9576
DOI: 10.1016/s0968-8080(07)30323-6