Global health initiative investments and health systems strengthening: A content analysis of global fund investments

Globalization and Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Warren, Ashley E ^a,b   Wyss, Kaspar ^a,b   Shakarishvili, George ^c   Atun, Rifat ^d,e   de Savigny, Don ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA   (Switzerland)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMAN RESOURCE; INVESTMENT; MALARIA; MEDICINE; STAKEHOLDER; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALARIA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL MARKETING; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FINANCING, ORGANIZED; HUMANS; MALARIA; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84880872737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-9-30     Document Type: Article

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