The global health system: Linking knowledge with action - Learning from malaria

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Keusch, Gerald T ^a   Kilama, Wen L ^b   Moon, Suerie ^c   Szlezák, Nicole A ^c   Michaud, Catherine M ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b African Malaria Network Trust   (Tanzania)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Harvard Initiative for Global Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG INDUSTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISTORY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG INDUSTRY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONALITY; MALARIA; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 75749115930     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000179     Document Type: Review

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