Who and global health monitoring: The way forward

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Ties Boerma, J ^a   Mathers, Colin ^a   Abou Zahr, Carla ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL HEALTH ESTIMATE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PEER REVIEW; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; HEALTH;

HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 78649952483     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000373     Document Type: Article

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