Systems thinking in practice: The current status of the six WHO building blocks for health system strengthening in three BHOMA intervention districts of Zambia: A baseline qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mutale, Wilbroad ^a,b   Bond, Virginia ^c   Mwanamwenge, Margaret Tembo ^c   Mlewa, Susan ^c   Balabanova, Dina ^b   Spicer, Neil ^b   Ayles, Helen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARD; TEACHER; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZAMBIA;

CONFIDENTIALITY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTORS; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84880927472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-291     Document Type: Article

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