Alma-Ata at 40 years: reflections from the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 392; no. 10156; pp. 1434 - 1460
• Main Authors: Watkins, David A, Yamey, Gavin, Schäferhoff, Marco, Adeyi, Olusoji, Alleyne, George, Alwan, Ala, Berkley, Seth, Feachem, Richard, Frenk, Julio, Ghosh, Gargee, Goldie, Sue J, Guo, Yan, Gupta, Sanjeev, Knaul, Felicia, Kruk, Margaret, Nugent, Rachel, Ogbuoji, Osondu, Qi, Jinyuan, Reddy, Srinath, Saxenian, Helen, Soucat, Agnés, Jamison, Dean T, Summers, Lawrence H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 20.10.2018; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Accounting; Cardiovascular disease; Collective action; Commodities; Cost estimates; Counterfeiting; Delivery of Health Care - economics; Delivery of Health Care - standards; Disease control; Drug resistance; Economic models; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Externality; Financing; Global economy; Global Health; Health care; Health Expenditures - statistics & numerical data; Health policy; Health Policy - trends; Healthy People Programs - standards; Households; Humans; Infectious diseases; Influenza; Low income groups; Maternal mortality; Mortality; Pandemics; Policy research; Population growth; Primary care; Primary Health Care - standards; Product development; Public health; Sustainable development; Trends; Tuberculosis; Universal Health Insurance; Vaccines; Eurasia; United States > US; China; Sub-Saharan Africa; Latin America; India

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