Effects of a community scorecard on improving the local health system in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: Qualitative evidence using the most significant change technique

Conflict and Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ho, Lara S ^a   Labrecque, Guillaume ^a   Batonon, Isatou ^a   Salsi, Viviana ^a   Ratnayake, Ruwan ^b  

^a International Rescue Committee ^*  (Pakistan)

^b INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community participation; Community scorecard; Democratic Republic of Congo; Fragile and conflict affected health systems; Health committee; Most significant change; Social accountability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940659538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13031-015-0055-4     Document Type: Article

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