Pilot-testing service-based planning for health care in rural Zambia

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL.1, 2014, Pages

  Goma, Fastone M ^a   Tomblin Murphy, Gail ^b   Libetwa, Miriam ^c   Mackenzie, Adrian ^b   Nzala, Selestine H ^a   Mbwili Muleya, Clara ^c   Rigby, Janet ^b   Gough, Amy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

Author keywords

competencies; human resources for health; planning; policy; service based planning; Zambia

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; ZAMBIA;

FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84900852752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-S1-S7     Document Type: Article

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