From papers to practices: District level priority setting processes and criteria for family planning, maternal, newborn and child health interventions in Tanzania

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chitama, Dereck ^a,b   Baltussen, Rob ^a   Ketting, Evert ^a   Kamazima, Switbert ^b   Nswilla, Anna ^c   Mujinja, Phares G M ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^c Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW)   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FAMILY PLANNING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEWBORN CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TANZANIA; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; INFANT WELFARE; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; FEMALE; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT WELFARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL WELFARE; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH CENTERS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054756139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-11-46     Document Type: Article

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