Public health successes and frail health systems in Tanzania

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2015, Pages e348-e349

  Kruk, Margaret E ^a   Mbaruku, Godfrey ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NOTE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESUSCITATION; RURAL AREA; SURVIVAL; TANZANIA; CHILD HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; STANDARDS;

CHILD HEALTH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT HEALTH; MATERNAL HEALTH; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH;

EID: 84937571246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00036-4     Document Type: Note

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