Beginning with sustainable scale up in mind: Initial results from a population, health and environment project in East Africa

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 22, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 84-92

  Ghiron, Laura ^a   Shillingi, Lucy ^b   Kabiswa, Charles ^c   Ogonda, Godfrey ^d   Omimo, Antony ^e   Ntabona, Alexis ^e   Simmons, Ruth ^f   Fajans, Peter ^e  

^a Partners in Expanding Health Quality and Access   (United States)

^b Health of People and Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin Project (HoPE LVB) Pathfinder International Uganda   (Uganda)

^c Ecological Christian Organization   (Uganda)

^d PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^e OSIENALA ^*  (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Health and environment; Health policy and programmes; Kenya; Pilot projects; Population; Scale; Scaling up of services; Uganda; WHO Strategic Approach

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EXPANDNET; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; KENYA; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM SUSTAINABILITY; SCALE UP; UGANDA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AFRICA; COOPERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INTERVIEW; PILOT STUDY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

AFRICA, EASTERN; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH POLICY; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84901802291     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: 14609576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(14)43761-3     Document Type: Article

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