Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: Analysing the contextual and social network factors influencing the use of sustainability indicators in a health system - a comparative study in Nepal and Somaliland

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Blanchet, Karl ^a   Palmer, Jennifer ^a   Palanchowke, Raju ^b   Boggs, Dorothy ^c   Jama, Ali ^d   Girois, Susan ^e  

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

^b Handicap International Narayan Gopal Chowk Sallaghari   (Nepal)

^c Handicap International ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d Disability Action Network   (Somalia)

^e Norfolk Community Services Board   (United States)

Author keywords

Disability; Health systems; Nepal; Physical rehabilitation; Social network analysis; Somaliland; Sustainability; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; NEPAL; PROGRAM SUSTAINABILITY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS PROCESS; SYSTEMS THINKING; THINKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN RELATION; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; SOMALIA;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; NEPAL; ORGANIZATIONS; POLITICS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SOMALIA;

EID: 84924718682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-12-46     Document Type: Article

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