Strengthening capacity in developing countries for evidence-based public health:: The data for decision-making project

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1925-1937

  Pappaioanou, Marguerite ^a   Malison, Michael ^b   Wilkins, Karen ^b   Otto, Bradley ^b   Goodman, Richard A ^b   Churchill, R Elliott ^b   White, Mark ^b   Thacker, Stephen B ^b  

^a Center for Global Health   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Capacity building; Decision making; Epidemiology; Global health; Health information systems; Management; Public health policy

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CAMEROON; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEXICO; PHILIPPINES; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

EID: 0141565433     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00058-3     Document Type: Article

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