Essential medicines in Tanzania: does the new delivery system improve supply and accountability?

Health Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 74-81

  Mikkelsen Lopez, Inez ^a,b   Cowley, Peter ^c   Kasale, Harun ^d   Mbuya, Conrad ^d   Reid, Graham ^d   de Savigny, Don ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^d PRAXIS Consultants   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

accountability Tanzania; health systems; information system; medicines supply; supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952946715     PISSN: 20476965     EISSN: 20476973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/hs.2013.14     Document Type: Article

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