Where there is no health research: What can be done to fill the global gaps in health research?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  McKee, Martin ^a   Stuckler, David ^a,b   Basu, Sanjay ^c,d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MYANMAR; POLITICS; PUBLICATION; USSR; CAPACITY BUILDING; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH SERVICE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CAPACITY BUILDING; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

EID: 84860120016     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001209     Document Type: Article

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