Assembling GHERG: Could "academic crowd- sourcing" address gaps in global health estimates?

Journal of Global Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Rudan, Igor ^a   Campbell, Harry ^a   Marušić, Ana ^a,b   Sridhar, Devi ^a   Nair, Harish ^a   Adeloye, Davies ^a   Theodoratou, Evropi ^a   Chan, Kit Yee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

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EID: 84994152906     PISSN: 20472978     EISSN: 20472986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.05.010101     Document Type: Article

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