Contents
Health Policy
Introduction
Health Policy
This entry provides an overview of the legal framework of health policy, with a description of the most significant features of health policy at international level.
Related Work and Conclusions
Resources
See Also
- Social Protection
- Social Security
- Employment Affairs
- Welfare State
- Health
Resources
See Also
References (Papers)
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Hierarchical Display of Health policy
Social Questions > Health
International Organisations > United Nations > UN specialised agency > World Health Organisation
Education And Communications > Teaching > General education > Health education
Health policy
Concept of Health policy
See the dictionary definition of Health policy.
Characteristics of Health policy
Resources
Translation of Health policy
- Spanish: Política sanitaria
- French: Politique de la santé
- German: Gesundheitspolitik
- Italian: Politica sanitaria
- Portuguese: Política de saúde
- Polish: Polityka zdrowotna
Thesaurus of Health policy
Social Questions > Health > Health policy
International Organisations > United Nations > UN specialised agency > World Health Organisation > Health policy
Education And Communications > Teaching > General education > Health education > Health policy
See also
- Health care system
- Health expenditure
- Health costs
- Organisation of health care
- Health service
- Health statistics
- Health
- Health protection
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