Establishing a health information workforce: Innovation for low- and middle-income countries

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ledikwe, Jenny H ^a,b   Reason, Letitia L ^a   Burnett, Sarah M ^b,c   Busang, Lesego ^d   Bodika, Stephane ^e   Lebelonyane, Refeletswe ^f   Ludick, Steven ^g   Matshediso, Ellah ^g,h   Mawandia, Shreshth ^b,i   Mmelesi, Mpho ^j   Sento, Baraedi ^b   Semo, Bazghina werq ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Botswana International Training and Education Center for Health (I TECH)   (Botswana)

^c Accordia Global Health Foundation   (United States)

^d African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships   (Botswana)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^f Department of HIV AIDS Prevention and Care   (Botswana)

^g Government of Botswana   (Botswana)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

ⁱ International Training and Education Center for Health   (Tanzania)

^j National AIDS Coordinating Agency   (Botswana)

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Author keywords

Data quality; Health information; Health workforce; Monitoring and evaluation (M E); Task shifting

Indexed keywords

BOTSWANA; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE;

BOTSWANA; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; POVERTY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84880183364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-11-35     Document Type: Article

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