Taking health systems research to the district level: A new approach to accelerate progress in global health

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL.2, 2013, Pages

  Binagwaho, Agnes ^a,b,c   Nutt, Cameron T ^d   Uwaliraye, Parfait ^a   Wagner, Claire M ^e   Nyemazi, Jean Pierre ^f  

^a Ministry of Health of Rwanda   (Rwanda)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^e Global Health Delivery Partnership   (United States)

^f RWANDA BIOMEDICAL CENTER   (Rwanda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84878579450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-S2-S11     Document Type: Note

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