Factors facilitating and constraining the scaling up of an evidence-based strategy of community-based primary care: Management perspectives from northern Ghana

Global Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 366-378

  Krumholz, Abigail R ^a   Stone, Allison E ^a   Dalaba, Maxwell A ^b   Phillips, James F ^a   Adongo, Philip B ^c  

^a Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^b NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

community health; implementation research; scaling up

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FAMILY PLANNING; GHANA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERVIEW; LEADERSHIP; MANAGER; NURSE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; VOLUNTEER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH CENTERS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84922430504     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.981831     Document Type: Article

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