Playing broken telephone: Assessing faith-inspired health care provision in Africa;Jouer au téléphone arabe: Évaluation de la prestation de services de santé par les institutions inspirées par la religion en Afrique

Development in Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 819-834

  Olivier, Jill ^a   Wodon, Quentin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Methods; Social sector health; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ADVOCACY; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; POLICY APPROACH; SERVICE PROVISION;

AFRICA;

EID: 84863854603     PISSN: 09614524     EISSN: 13649213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2012.685870     Document Type: Article

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