Human resources for health in Palestine: A policy analysis. Part I. Current situation and recent developments

Health Policy

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 243-259

  Hamdan, Motasem ^a,b   Defever, Mia ^b  

^a AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Health policy and strategies; Human resources for health development; Palestine; Political instability conflict; Transition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; PALESTINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0037402924     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8510(03)00004-6     Document Type: Article

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