Mapping Africa's advanced public health education capacity: The AfriHealth project

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 914-922

  IJsselmuiden, C B ^a   Nchinda, T C ^b   Duale, S ^c   Tumwesigye, N M ^d   Serwadda, D ^d  

^a Council on Health Research for Development ^*  (Switzerland)

^b School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine ^*

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; MAPPING; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STAFF; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AFRICA;

EID: 37049016500     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.07.045526     Document Type: Article

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