Gaps between research and public health priorities in low income countries: Evidence from a systematic literature review focused on Cambodia

Implementation Science

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Goyet, Sophie ^a   Touch, Socheat ^b   Ir, Por ^b   SamAn, Sovannchhorvin ^b   Fassier, Thomas ^c   Frutos, Roger ^d,e   Tarantola, Arnaud ^a   Barennes, Hubert ^a,f,g  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DU CAMBODGE   (Cambodia)

^b National Institute of Public Health   (Cambodia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Cambodia)

^d University of Montpellier I and II   (France)

^e Institut de recherche pour le développement   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^g ANRS   (Cambodia)

Author keywords

Asia; Cambodia; Developing countries; Health; Health system strengthening; Knowledge translation; LMICs; Non communicable disease; Public health; Research

Indexed keywords

CAMBODIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CAMBODIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS;

EID: 84928752410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13012-015-0217-1     Document Type: Article

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