Equity-oriented toolkit for health technology assessment and knowledge translation: Application to scaling up of training and education for health workers

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ueffing, Erin ^a   Tugwell, Peter ^a   Roberts, Janet Hatcher ^b   Walker, Peter ^a   Hamel, Nadia ^a   Welch, Vivian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Canadian Society for International Health   (Canada)

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EID: 69549095922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-7-67     Document Type: Review

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