Defining research to improve health systems

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Remme, Jan H F ^a   Adam, Taghreed ^b   Becerra Posada, Francisco ^c   D'Arcangues, Catherine ^a   Devlin, Michael ^d   Gardner, Charles ^e   Ghaffar, Abdul ^b   Hombach, Joachim ^a   Kengeya, Jane F K ^a   Mbewu, Anthony ^e   Mbizvo, Michael T ^a   Mirza, Zafar ^a   Pang, Tikki ^a   Ridley, Robert G ^a   Zicker, Fabio ^a   Terry, Robert F ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Alliance Hlth Plcy and Syst Res   (Switzerland)

^c Council on Health Research for Development ^*  (Mexico)

^d Department of Reproductive Health and Research ^*  (Switzerland)

^e Global Forum for Health Research   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; HEALTH; RESEARCH;

HEALTH; RESEARCH;

EID: 78649941279     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001000     Document Type: Article

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