What Is EU Public Health and Why? Explaining the Scope and Organization of Public Health in the European Union.
Public health is notoriously difficult to define, and that is the case for public health in the European Union as much as other political systems. In this article, the authors try to identify the actual scope and meaning of public health as it is institutionalized in the EU political system. Using a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 23 - 48 |
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Duke University Press
Feb2021
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