Health challenges in Tanzania: Context for educating health professionals

Journal of Public Health Policy

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages

  Kwesigabo, Gideon ^a   Mwangu, Mughwira A ^a   Kakoko, Deodatus C ^a   Killewo, Japhet ^a  

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

Author keywords

disease burden; epidemiology; public health; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL PROFESSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TANZANIA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA;

EID: 84871454913     PISSN: 01975897     EISSN: 1745655X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jphp.2012.47     Document Type: Review

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