Local and foreign authorship of maternal health interventional research in low- and middle-income countries: Systematic mapping of publications 2000-2012

Globalization and Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Chersich, Matthew F ^a,b,c   Blaauw, Duane ^b   Dumbaugh, Mari ^d,e   Penn Kekana, Loveday ^b,f   Dhana, Ashar ^b   Thwala, Siphiwe ^b   Bijlmakers, Leon ^g   Vargas, Emily ^h,i   Kern, Elinor ^b   Becerra Posada, Francisco ^j   Kavanagh, Josephine ^b   Mannava, Priya ^k   Mlotshwa, Langelihle ^b,e   Becerril Montekio, Victor ⁱ   Footman, Katharine ^f   Rees, Helen ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

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

^g RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^j PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^k BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Authorship; LMICs; Maternal health; Research governance; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MAPPING; MATERNAL HEALTH; RESEARCH WORK; WOMENS HEALTH;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARIBBEAN; COMMUNITY CARE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MALARIA; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WRITING; COOPERATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AUTHORSHIP; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MATERNAL HEALTH; RESEARCH;

EID: 84978153713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-016-0172-x     Document Type: Article

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