Research to policy and practice change: Is capacity building in operational research delivering the goods?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1068-1075

  Zachariah, Rony ^a   Guillerm, Nathalie ^b   Berger, Selma ^b   Kumar, Ajay M V ^b   Satyanarayana, Srinath ^b   Bissell, Karen ^b,c   Edginton, Mary ^b,d   Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund ^e   Tayler Smith, Katie ^a   Van den Bergh, Rafael ^a   Khogali, Mohammed ^a   Manzi, Marcel ^a   Reid, Anthony J ^a   Ramsay, Andrew ^f,g   Reeder, John C ^f   Harries, Anthony D ^b,h  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^h LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Impact; M decins sans Fronti res; Research; Structured Operational Research and Training IniTiative; Union

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH POLICY; RESEARCH WORK; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CAPACITY BUILDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; FIJI; FRANCE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; KENYA; LUXEMBOURG; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEPAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DESARROLLO DE CAPACIDADES; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; IMPACT; IMPACTO; INVESTIGACIÓN; MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES; MSF; PUBLICATION; RECHERCHE; RENFORCEMENT DES CAPACITÉS; RESEARCH; SORT IT; STRUCTURED OPERATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING INITIATIVE; UNION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BELGIUM; FIJI; FRANCE; ILE DE FRANCE; INDIA; KENYA; LUXEMBOURG [BELGIUM]; PARIS; VILLE DE PARIS;

TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

CAPACITY BUILDING; DESARROLLO DE CAPACIDADES; IMPACT; IMPACTO; INVESTIGACIÓN; MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES; MSF; RECHERCHE; RENFORCEMENT DES CAPACITÉS; RESEARCH; SORT IT; STRUCTURED OPERATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING INITIATIVE; TRI; UNION;

CAPACITY BUILDING; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PUBLICATIONS; RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84907289845     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12343     Document Type: Article

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