Institutional capacity for health systems research in East and Central Africa schools of public health: Enhancing capacity to design and implement teaching programs

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Nangami, Mabel N ^a   Rugema, Lawrence ^b   Tebeje, Bosena ^c   Mukose, Aggrey ^d  

^a MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^c JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Curriculum design; Health systems research; Teaching health systems research; Training in health systems research

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRICULUM; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIKERT SCALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF EVALUATION; STAFF; TEACHING; UNIVERSITY; CAPACITY BUILDING; EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SCHOOL; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; AFRICA, EASTERN; CAPACITY BUILDING; COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHOOLS, PUBLIC HEALTH; TEACHING;

EID: 84903274601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-12-22     Document Type: Article

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