Innovation in evaluating the impact of integrated service-delivery: The integra indexes of HIV and reproductive health integration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Mayhew, Susannah H ^a   Ploubidis, George B ^b   Sloggett, Andy ^a   Church, Kathryn ^a   Obure, Carol D ^c   Birdthistle, Isolde ^a   Sweeney, Sedona ^a   Warren, Charlotte E ^d   Watts, Charlotte ^a   Vassall, Anna ^a   Abuya, Timothy ^d   Askew, Ian ^d   Colombini, Manuela ^a   Friend DuPreez, Natalie ^a   Kikuvi, Joshua ^d   Kimani, James ^d   Kivunaga, Jackline ^d   Hopkins, Jon ⁱ   Mak, Joelle ^a   Michaels Igbokwe, Christine ⁱ   Mutemwa, Richard ^a   Ndigwa, Charity ⁱ   Zhou, Weiwei ⁱ   Collumbien, Martine ^a   Howard, Natasha ^a   Obure, Dayo ^a   Mdawida, Brian ^d   Ndwiga, Charity ^d   Oweya, Erick ^d   Hopkins, Jonathan ^e   Oteba, Lawrence ^e   Stackpool Moore, Lucy ^e   Trossero, Ale ^e   Nhlabatsi, Zelda ^f   Simelane, Dudu ^f   Muketo, Esther ^g   Chatuluka, Mathias ^h   more..

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UCL Institute of Education   (United Kingdom)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^e International Planned Parenthood Federation ^*  (United States)

^f FLAS   (United States)

^g FHOK   (Kenya)

^h FPAM   (Malaysia)

ⁱ NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; KENYA; MODEL; PHYSICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWAZILAND; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HIV INFECTIONS; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SWAZILAND;

EID: 84958214826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146694     Document Type: Article

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