Eliciting policymakers' and stakeholders' opinions to help shape health system research priorities in the Middle East and North Africa region

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-27

  El Jardali, Fadi ^a   Makhoul, Jihad ^a   Jamal, Diana ^a   Ranson, Michael Kent ^b   Kronfol, Nabil M ^c   Tchaghchagian, Victoria ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c Lebanese Health Care Management Association   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Health financing; Human resources for health; Low and middle income countries; Middle East and North Africa; Non state sector

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; AFRICA, NORTHERN; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE EAST; RESEARCH;

EID: 73849104328     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czp059     Document Type: Article

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