Health research profile to assess the capacity of low and middle income countries for equity-oriented research

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tugwell, P ^a,b,c   Sitthi Amorn, C ^d   Hatcher Roberts, J ^e   Neufeld, V ^a   Makara, P ^d   Munoz, F ^a   Czerny, P ^a,g   Robinson, V ^f   Nuyens, Y ^b   Okello, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Council on Health Research for Development ^*  (Swaziland)

^g INDUSTRY CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSENSUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; AFRICA; ASIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DELPHI STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN EUROPE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AFRICA; ASIA; CONSENSUS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EUROPE, EASTERN; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 33747265133     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-151     Document Type: Article

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