Using research to influence sexual and reproductive health practice and implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A case-study analysis

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Tulloch, Olivia ^a   Mayaud, Philippe ^b   Adu Sarkodie, Yaw ^c   Opoku, Baafuor K ^c   Lithur, Nana O ^d   Sickle, Eugene ^e   Delany Moretlwe, Sinead ^e   Wambura, Mwita ^f   Changalucha, John ^a   Theobald, Sally ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^d Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCUMCISION; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GHANA; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLITICS; RELIGION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALITY; SOUTH AFRICA; SYPHILIS; TANZANIA;

EID: 79958859967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-9-S1-S10     Document Type: Article

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