Health system stewardship of National Health Ministries in the WHO European region: Concepts, functions and assessment framework

Health Policy

Volumn 103, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 191-199

  Veillard, Jeremy Henri Maurice ^a   Brown, Adalsteinn Davidson ^b   Bariş, Enis ^c   Permanand, Govin ^d   Klazinga, Niek Sebastian ^e  

^a CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INFORMATION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

^d WHO Regional Office for Europe   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ethics; Government; Health policy; Public health administration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NATIONAL HEALTH MINISTRY; NORTH AMERICA; STEWARDSHIP; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EUROPE; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS;

EID: 80255138410     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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