Beyond clinical skills: Key capacities needed for universal health coverage

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Tangcharoensathien, Viroj ^a   Evans, David B ^b  

^a MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY;

GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; POLICY;

EID: 84886992196     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.13.121335     Document Type: Editorial

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