Climate for evidence-informed health systems: A print media analysis in 44 low- and middle-income countries that host knowledge-translation platforms

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cheung, Andrew ^a,b   Lavis, John N ^b,c,d   Hamandi, Ali ^b,e   El Jardali, Fadi ^b,f   Sachs, Jonathan ^g   Sewankambo, Nelson ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^g Canadian Health Services Research Foundation   (Canada)

^h MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INCOME; LEBANON; MALAYSIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 79952027865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-9-7     Document Type: Article

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