The imperative of strategic alignment across organizations: The experience of the Canadian Cancer Society's Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Cameron, Roy ^a,b   Riley, Barbara L ^a   Campbell, H Sharon ^a   Manske, Stephen ^a   Lamers Bellio, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Intervention studies; Organizational alignment; Population health

Indexed keywords

EID: 60549107374     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03405506     Document Type: Review

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