Achieving the millennium development goals for health: Time to reassess strategies for improving health in developing countries

British Medical Journal

Volumn 331, Issue 7525, 2005, Pages 1133-1136

  Evans, David B ^a   Adam, Taghreed ^a   Edejer, Tessa Tan Torres ^a   Lim, Stephen S ^b   Cassels, Andrew ^c   Evans, Timothy G ^c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHILD HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALARIA; MATERNAL WELFARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GOALS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 27744443083     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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