Improving the long-term sustainability of health aid: Are Global Health Partnerships leading the way?

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 363-371

  Dodd, Rebecca ^a   Lane, Christopher ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

aid; health policy; Health systems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; TIME;

HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; POLITICS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77956306323     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czq014     Document Type: Article

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