Trends in health policy and systems research over the past decade: Still too little capacity in low-income countries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Adam, Taghreed ^a   Ahmad, Saad ^a   Bigdeli, Maryam ^a   Ghaffar, Abdul ^a   Røttingen, John Arne ^b,c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINANCIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TREND STUDY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; ORGANIZATION; POVERTY; STATISTICS; TIME; WRITING;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; POVERTY; PUBLICATIONS; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 81555204312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027263     Document Type: Article

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