Social vaccines to resist and change unhealthy social and economic structures: a useful metaphor for health promotion.

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Published in Health Promot Int on July 23, 2009

Authors

Fran Baum1, Ravi Narayan, David Sanders, Vikram Patel, Arturo Quizhpe

Author Affiliations

1: Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia. fran.baum@flinders.edu.au

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