Stakeholders' participation in planning and priority setting in the context of a decentralised health care system: The case of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programme in Tanzania

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Shayo, Elizabeth H ^a,b   Mboera, Leonard Eg ^b   Blystad, Astrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Decentralisation; Donor influence; Planning; PMTCT; Priority setting; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TANZANIA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TANZANIA;

EID: 84880013238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-273     Document Type: Article

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