Involving decision-makers in the research process: Challenges of implementing the accountability for reasonableness approach to priority setting at the district level in Tanzania

Global Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 760-772

  Maluka, Stephen ^a   Kamuzora, Peter ^a   Ndawi, Benedict ^b   Hurtig, Anna Karin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^b Primary Health Care Institute   (Tanzania)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

accountability for reasonableness; Action Research; collaborative research; priority setting; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY FOR REASONABLENESS; ACTION RESEARCH; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIST; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TANZANIA; COOPERATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TANZANIA;

EID: 84906282483     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.922208     Document Type: Article

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