The World Health Organization and global health estimates: Improving collaboration and capacity

BMC Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Boerma, Ties ^a   Mathers, Colin D ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Global health; Global health estimates; Health statistics; Population health monitoring; Statistical modelling

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOTE; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; COOPERATION; HEALTH; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84924975784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0286-7     Document Type: Note

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