The integrated disease surveillance and response system in northern Ghana: Challenges to the core and support functions

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Adokiya, Martin N ^a,b   Awoonor Williams, John K ^c,d,e   Beiersmann, Claudia ^a   Müller, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Ghana)

^c GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Core and support functions; Disease surveillance; Ghana; Health information system

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84938420926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-015-0960-7     Document Type: Article

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